Drinking Wine

Today was a trip to Wairarapa in the town of Martinborough which is the heart of wine country in the Northern Island. We took a tour with a bus so we could all drink and be merry. We started at 10:15 am and did 2 wineries, then a light lunch and then 2 more wineries and then afternoon tea before going back home. I drank more wine than ever before and couldn't take any more! Tried Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Reisling, Sauvignon Blanc, and Chardonnays. There are sooo many small wineries out there and it's all very beautiful. However, it did remind me of all the backbreaking labor that goes into making a bottle of wine. I had to compare everything to what I had done. I was shocked that none of them hedged the tops of the vines with machete knives like I did (which was the best part of growing the grapes), they ruin it by using stupid machines!! We met some nice people on the tour with us. There was an older Scottish couple, a German woman who is traveling everywhere around the world, 2 young women who had both lived in Ohio for a year and one is now living in Japan (small world, eh?), and a couple who kept to themselves. We had to take the train to Featherston and at the railway station, they had a Platform 9 and 3/4, how fantastic is that?!??!?