Monday, March 5, 2007

Monday 26th February 2007



Today was a serious Chardonnay day! On Friday the barrels arrived to replace those that had been bobbing around the English Channel just over a month ago – just in time for our Nine Yards Chardonnay vineyard, which is due to be harvested tomorrow. Talk about cutting it fine!

Kathy collected our two Mauritian sales reps, Belinda and Kristel from the airport – they should have arrived on Friday already, but tropical cyclone Gamede had grounded all flights to and from Mauritius for a few days. They will be spending a few days with us to learn a bit more about the winemaking process, and also to understand what makes Jordan so different to other wine cellars. By the end of harvesting activities for the day, we had brought in just over 500 tonnes of the 2007 vintage into the cellar. The photograph above is of Kristel (R) and Belinda (L) with the mist just starting to cover the vineyards in the background. On the right they are shown here helping to harvest the Merlot!

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