Alex installed the shelving in the winery today. So I unpacked the boxes of supplies that had been tucked away in the loft of our garage after every winemaking session concluded. It's starting to fill up.
I also purchased white boots to be used only in the winery when it's a wet room, and I have new flip-flops to use otherwise so we don't track dirt into the room.
Little by little, every time I work in there, I learn what else we need to bring up from the house or acquire anew. Today I realized we needed dish towels. Yesterday I had brought over a waste basket, a pencil holder and stoppers for the sink. There's always something missing. We have a desk and chair, a file cabinet, containers for collecting grapes, a sorting table, industrial sink and washdown system, three fermentation vats and a hydropress. We are awaiting the de-stemmer/crusher and bottling machines. When the rest of the equipment arrives, it will be quite full.
We are going to have to harvest this week as next week we may have a visit from Tropical Storm Margot, currently strengthening to hurricane force. We'll have to haul the boat out of the water beforehand.
But first, we will attend the funeral of good friend Kieran Thompson of Newport House who passed away last week aged 93 years. What a gentle and intelligent man who had a legendary wine cellar. He taught Alex to appreciate fine wines when Alex worked there as a gillie. I think Alex always had a special place in Kieran's heart, and he embraced me as well. When he was still driving, he'd come over to our house for dinner occasionally. Alex always tried to find a wine to serve that Kieran didn't know. We finally found that after we returned from the Caribbean with a case of Viognier, finally a wine Kieran had not experienced -- and he liked it! RIP Kieran. You will be missed.
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