What Does it Take . . .

. . . to make great wine? BEER. Very cold BEER. And ibuprofen, coffee, band-aids, good music, sleep when you can get it, and BEER. Ironically, the last thing you want to drink after making wine all day is a glass of wine. Give me a Racer 5 IPA everytime. In wine country, the grungy guys sitting at the bar drinking beer in the wine bars are usually winemakers (and interns)! Don't get me wrong though - it's not like we are drinking beer all day - that would be bad when operating forklifts, moving barrels around etc. In fact, the other day I calculated that if I dropped the four full new barrels of wine I was forklifting, it would be about a $50,000.00 accident. Yes, there is insurance but I really don't want some weasel subrogation insurance lawyer coming after me because I had been drinking beer while operating a forklift.