2 February 2010Road Trip Day 2

The outstanding weather in the last few days continues.  It has been another super day with temperatures getting up to 31 to 35 degrees Celsius in the vineyards of the Cromwell / Bendigo area.  Crossing our fingers that this carries on as the end of last year was very cool, carrying on the very cold winter of 2009.

Anyway today found Jane and I in the warehouse.  The sticker application wasn't all done yesterday, so we were back to finish it off with a little help from the warehouse staff to move pallets, open boxes and apply stickers.  Jane now has this application of stickers down to a fine art and we whizzed along.

I'm not sure whether to be happy that I was in a temperature controlled warehouse out of the heat or unhappy that I wasn't enjoying weather that hasn't really been a feature for most of our Wellington 'summer' this year.

However by mid afternoon we had done 5 pallets (an awful lot of bottles!) of Pinot Noir with 'Recommended by WineState' stickers.  A great effort that had to be rewarded by going home and tucking into some delicious Central Otago cherries and another beer on the deck (suitably slip, slap, slopped and wrapped against the sun!).

Dinner has been a bbq'd (gas, not charcoal) leg of lamb, marinated and butterflied.  In fact I think I'm going to have to share this receipe from Jane's sister in law, as it is just so delicious.  And the bottle of our Pinot Noir we shared just seems perfect with it at the moment as well.
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