Winemaking is so glamorous. We pick grapes, sort through them to eliminate rot and other bad stuff, put them into a press that extracts the juice, and then run the juice through hoses and into tanks to settle out and blend before fermentation. Pre-fermentation, racking is the process of running off the good juice from the solids that have settled out. Once the juice is solid-free, it goes back into a tank to be fermented into wine. What I've found is that this process involves a lot of cleaning - cleaning presses, cleaning hoses, cleaning tanks, cleaning buckets, cleaning the floor. Every time we go through this process we clean for the next turn. On an average harvest day we may go through this process 2 or 3 times. Joe was the lucky guy on this day who got to climb into the huge stainless steel tank to clean it. I hope I get the job next time.
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