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Home Sweet Home   Harvester; totally power rangers, right? Ten tons of Gewürtztraminer – first fruit of the crush in the middle of the night   The Office     Johannes – Crush Control   Jenny – Punchdown Princess   View from the top of the 5-ton fermentors, trying not to breathe too deep. CO2 […]

We pulled the slightly dirtier-than-when-we-left Falcon into the dirt lot by our double wide.  The winemaker and our new boss, Stefan, was probably slightly surprised to see us return (alive), although we looked a bit battered, bitten by sand flies, unshowered, and slightly hungover.  Your interns are back!! We started the next day, 60 TONS of […]

We were bummed to leave Queenstown.  We could imagine in just a few months how the scene would turn from boating and water sports on the lake to skiers and boarders carving down the snow-capped purple mountains. But it was only a vision. We didn’t have time to wait around; we had some quality sun […]

Queenstown is an adventure junkie’s dream. The place has every activity bound to get you outside and shoot you up with an adrenaline high. I mean, it’s the home of bungee-jumping for Pete’s sake – and they are damn proud of it. On a lake surrounded by mountains, Queenstown is full of both winter sports […]

We packed our co-worker, Tony’s 1991 Ford Falcon station wagon with our backpacks and left for Marlborough with the parting words in his best Kiwi accent: ‘it doesn’t lock, but don’t worry, do what I do – whenever I bring my kayak out, I just back up to a wall so no one can steal […]

The 18 months in between was a long and short time. Johannes finished studying, granting him a major in Viticulture and Enology from Geisenheim, and went on to work for a large winery in the Mosel Valley as a general manager. Meanwhile, I went to manage a small tasting room for a Sonoma-based winery in […]

I sat, overdressed anxious, in Mike’s 3rd story winery office as we talked about my experience at Cal Poly. He chuckled at my homemade business card attached to my resume. Fresh out of college, I was ready to get my feet wet in the industry I studied: wine. I left the interview that day thinking […]

We initially started this blog to document our story, travels and wine adventures, but many followers later, we’ve got a reputation to hold up!  *No slackers please* Over the course of the next several posts, we’ll tell a story of how we met, and the one August, at which part our two journeys became one. Undefinable, […]