First, I must laugh.  I mentioned in the last post about how quickly the first four days at work had flown by…..it happens that W/T/F makes three days!  Fast indeed!

Saturday arrived with the usual cellar tasks.  There are no weekends during harvest, just grapes, tending to fermentations, and clean up, clean up, clean up.  A great deal of the work during harvest is cleaning.  Everyday the equipment needs to be cleaned even if just one movement of grapes or wine goes through the system.  In my family I am known as “tiddy Iddy”…..I can’t imagine who Iddy was but she apparently liked to clean!  Others might call it anal.  In any case, it makes me a welcome addition to the cellar as I cannot leave a single berry floating around the cellar floor. We had a full Saturday with grapes to process, rackings, pump overs, etc.  Baptiste and I spent a couple of hours in the afternoon visiting the vineyards checking on maturity deciding what to pick this upcoming week.

One of Two Original Cristia Vineyards, 100 Year Old Vines

Limestone Rocks at Another Cristia Vineyard

TERROIR!

We closed down the cellar around 7:00 and as it was Saturday night certainly there is some entertainment available.  BUT, you will NEVER guess what we did.  First the photos, then the answer:

The Entrance to the Theatre Antique d'Orange

The Band Plays Under the Watchful Eye of JC

The Finale of the French Pink Floyd

We Left Under an Almost Full Moon, Tres Romantique!

YES, you read that correctly!  There is a French Pink Floyd.  This band does exclusively PF covers.  It was an incredible evening.  Nothing can top the absolutely incredible Théâtre Antique d’Orange.  Imagine that hundreds of years ago Romans were watching games in that same arena and sitting on those very seats.  Absolutely magical!  But this evening was VERY chilly as the temperature dropped to 12.5 degrees (around 54 degrees F) and the Mistral…..oh did she blow, and blow, and blow.  In fact, the band had to bring down their big speakers as they were swaying dangerously above the stage (the speakers, not the band!).  We rocked as if we were kids of the 70’s once again.  Quite the evening.  And once again, to bed after midnight!