what did we do during the eclipse?

we are bottling! the bottling truck arrives, august 21, 2017. it’s a tight squeeze backing into our narrow driveway but with a little guidance it made it through. now to get the wine into the bottles.

 

picking up the empty bottles

this contraption grabs the empty bottles and feeds them into the bottling line

merlot on it’s way out

the bottles have been filled, labelled and capped

into the cases

here is john loading the bottles into boxes

out of the truck and onto the pallets<</span

howard supervising the back end

finished pallets

a big truck comes the next day and takes these pallets to our warehouse in san jose