Today started badly. The part arrived from Madrid to repair our cooling system, and yes, you’ve already guessed….. it was the wrong piece! From there the news got worse – the circuit board that we actually need is no longer made, we would need to find an electronic engineer and have a custom board made from scratch. Having said that, there was also a little bit of good news. The temporary repair appeared to be holding out, and the temperature of our tanks was still under control.

Out in the vineyards the news was not that great either. The sun had disappeared and the sky was very overcast and a little threatening. By lunch time a fine drizzle turned into light rain, and so, quite understandably, we decided to suspend operations for the day. Perhaps if we hadn’t lost four or five hours of picking during yesterday’s fine weather, we would already be nearing the end of the 2012 harvest, but at the end of day five we still had at least one full day of grape collection still outstanding.

Perhaps not our most satisfying day from an operational point of view, but we are compensated in the knowledge that the fruit we have collected so far is of very high quality.

Today started badly. The part arrived from Madrid to repair our cooling system, and yes, you’ve already guessed….. it was the wrong piece! From there the news got worse – the circuit board that we actually need is no longer made, we would need to find an electronic engineer and have a custom board made from scratch. Having said that, there was also a little bit of good news. The temporary repair appeared to be holding out, and the temperature of our tanks was still under control.

Out in the vineyards the news was not that great either. The sun had disappeared and the sky was very overcast and a little threatening. By lunch time a fine drizzle turned into light rain, and so, quite understandably, we decided to suspend operations for the day. Perhaps if we hadn’t lost four or five hours of picking during yesterday’s fine weather, we would already be nearing the end of the 2012 harvest, but at the end of day five we still had at least one full day of grape collection still outstanding.

Perhaps not our most satisfying day from an operational point of view, but we are compensated in the knowledge that the fruit we have collected so far is of very high quality.