Harvest update - things are nearly done got some Cabernet Sauvignon that has been grown in a greenhouse today and the last of some Chardonnay from Dorset on Tuesday and then that is it.
That said there will be a further month more or less of putting things to bed blending up the wines into the agreed portfolio ready for next year - Sainsbury and Tescos own label rose and white respectively. I think we are gonna surprise a few folk how good the wines turn out so that's a result...fingers crossed!
As for the J O B the result was that although the winemaker wanted me to stay full time the other issues that are going on here mean they cannot afford to take me on and they only can offer 1 month extra employment.
The issue is the ex winemaker whose been on stress leave for a year after cocking up badly. He turned 10k of red wine into vinegar it the wine still resides in the winery and no one has either sold it off for ethanol production or tried to reprocess it under heavy reverse osmosis so that it may be reblended back as wine..... Any way he came back to work 2 days after me starting. The company has a duty to rehabilitate him and they do not want to go the expensive route of making him redundant. He hasn't lifted much of a finger during the harvest and to be honest I am a bit aggrieved that he is earning top dollar and doing little and is now going to remain when I busted a gut and got denied over his shamefacedness.
Any road I feel I may have dodged a bullet here...............Where to next????????????????????
That said there will be a further month more or less of putting things to bed blending up the wines into the agreed portfolio ready for next year - Sainsbury and Tescos own label rose and white respectively. I think we are gonna surprise a few folk how good the wines turn out so that's a result...fingers crossed!
As for the J O B the result was that although the winemaker wanted me to stay full time the other issues that are going on here mean they cannot afford to take me on and they only can offer 1 month extra employment.
The issue is the ex winemaker whose been on stress leave for a year after cocking up badly. He turned 10k of red wine into vinegar it the wine still resides in the winery and no one has either sold it off for ethanol production or tried to reprocess it under heavy reverse osmosis so that it may be reblended back as wine..... Any way he came back to work 2 days after me starting. The company has a duty to rehabilitate him and they do not want to go the expensive route of making him redundant. He hasn't lifted much of a finger during the harvest and to be honest I am a bit aggrieved that he is earning top dollar and doing little and is now going to remain when I busted a gut and got denied over his shamefacedness.
Any road I feel I may have dodged a bullet here...............Where to next????????????????????