Things are piling up

August 25th, 2011 | Harvest

Under normal circumstances I would like to believe that our cellars are always clean and well ordered, but I’m afraid to admit that, at harvest time it’s not quite that simple.

Although our wine cellar is pretty large (certainly by Galician standards), at harvest time space is always at a premium. Anything that can be moved or piled high will find a temporary new home. Whilst we actively discourage our customers from ordering during harvest, we will actually never say “No”, and so we always have stock prepared and at the ready. The problem inevitably arises when the pallet that we need is actually at the back, or at the bottom of a pile.

Then of course there are the special labels. As I write this post we are hurriedly preparing two orders, one for Germany and one for France, both of which have special labelling requirements. In Germany we need to include ‘enthält sulfite’ on the label – contains sulfites (which we already mention in two other languages), and then for France we have the infamous ‘do not drink whilst pregnant’ logo.

As though we don’t have enough to think about!

Under normal circumstances I would like to believe that our cellars are always clean and well ordered, but I’m afraid to admit that, at harvest time it’s not quite that simple.

Although our wine cellar is pretty large (certainly by Galician standards), at harvest time space is always at a premium. Anything that can be moved or piled high will find a temporary new home. Whilst we actively discourage our customers from ordering during harvest, we will actually never say “No”, and so we always have stock prepared and at the ready. The problem inevitably arises when the pallet that we need is actually at the back, or at the bottom of a pile.

Then of course there are the special labels. As I write this post we are hurriedly preparing two orders, one for Germany and one for France, both of which have special labelling requirements. In Germany we need to include ‘enthält sulfite’ on the label – contains sulfites (which we already mention in two other languages), and then for France we have the infamous ‘do not drink whilst pregnant’ logo.

As though we don’t have enough to think about!

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