This year for the 5th time we travelled to my family´s winery - about 400 km north-east - to assist at the vintage and to "taste" ( a bit....) the new wines!
Friday evening we reached my brother´s wine-cellar for a welcome-drink ("Sturm" - an Austrian traditional drink - the grape-cider on its way to young wine - tastes superb!) and headed on to a wine-tavern - where we really celebrated our wonderful team-spirit and did enjoy the fantastic food, good wines and some fine Schnaps...... (leaving the tavern as "last-men-standing" and coming to bed late.....).
Next morning working-operation in the vineyards! Only one collegue had some "physical handicap" - the rest of our team has been strong and ready for harvesting grapes! It was real fun! - Dry weather, big bunches of very sweet grapes, good mood and lots of laughs!
In only 3 1/2 hours we picked 4.000 kg of "Green Veltlin Grapes" and brought them to the wine-cellar for further treatment!
In the evening we had a "wine-maker-supper" in my family´s wine-cellar - with lots of local specialities - and lots of "Sturm" and young 2008-wines!
My father invited us to his private vault - an extra tunnel where he collects and stores his best wines from all vintages since 1969. - Fantastic - I can tell you! We opened several old wines (1989,1990, 1994) and enjoyed this special atmosphere in the underground cellar!
I always like to go to my parent´s place - and I´m always pleased to see how my father really loves to tell us about his wine-maker-life and about his old wines (and some more "good old stories"....). - Really great!
Sunday we all packed some wine-boxes in our cars (of course!), some schnaps, some liquors, some fresh grapes,..... - and a lot of good memories from this wonderful weekend!
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