Winery Working

Since February I have been working at Pettavel Winery on the 2008 vintage. The experience has been a great way for me to transform my interest in drinking Australian wine into a more educational endeavor.

The first question I get from folks is, "Are you sick of tasting wine?" The answer is twofold: 1. People that work in wineries do not actually swallow the wine. 2. No educated winemaker would ever gamble the 2008 vintage on my wine tasting abilities. I seem to only smell strawberries and taste tobacco or cocoa in wine. Not a very diverse box of smells and tastes!

My main role at the winery is to test alcohol levels, baume (measure of sugar levels), PH, and acid levels in the wine. Do not tell the folks at Pettavel that my performance in Chemistry 101 and 102 at Tech was less than stellar!