The tasting room

After the rush of the pinotage, Cerina thought we should get someone to help us in the cellar, 'cause we get to bed too late. So I phoned around and Liaan finally said he would help. He started the 5th of February. He brought with him, such an energy that just charged up the whole place. He bonded really quickly with everyone in the cellar. Him and Jimmy, now that was a combo that was fun and trouble all rapped up in one. He made everyone in the cellar more lively... fun things just started to happen. We weren't that busy in the cellar, because all the pinotage was in and we got in some whites, but it was a lot chiller. I was mostly outside driving around on the forklift moving grapes while the others were in the cellar, racking juices, doing pump-overs and cleaning tanks. Let me tell you, cleaning tanks is hard work. You first need to get into one of those 10000L tanks (looks like a rocket) with a door just big enough for your ass to fit. I got the hang of it eventually, and cleaned my fair share of tanks.
Me and Liaan lived together in the cottage and then one afternoon after work, we went to the tasting room just under the cellar. There we met the gang...
Before Liaan moved in I shared the cottage with an intern from Germany, Sylvia. She's German-Italian and very beautiful. She moved out and invited us to a kiwi barbecue at the other cottage on the farm. There was a wide variety of weird there, but we quickly found the normal afrikaans group and hung out with them. Elrine and Johan (brother and sister) and Charles + his polish girlfriend, Jatsha. We danced a bit, but couldn't stay too late 'cause we had to be at work at 06:00 the next morning.
Me and Liaan always did the pump overs and punch downs at night, because we lived on the farm, it was fun. We'd put on the music and just work, it's very relaxing just spacing out while working.
Back to the tasting room gang. Pieter, Jan, Zelna, Elrine(marketing), Carol(office), Sharon(debt collector) and Bergette(marketing) just to name a few. Every night after work we'd go down to the lawn and share a glass of wine, chat and watch the sunset. Just thinking about it makes me sigh and long for it again.
I should thank Liaan for dragging me out of the cottage and making me go with him to the tasting room. Life on the farm would have been awful if I hadn't met them.
After being with us just for two weeks Liaan left for university 'cause an opportunity came knocking and he took the chance. Everyone missed him so much and me too. For the next 2 weeks I lived alone and it was quite scary, 'cause it can get very dark. And i missed the jokes and the conversations. I used to lecture him about his choice in girl, because he always seems to make the wrong one. During his 2 weeks with us, he met a girl, fell in and out of love and told me he still loved his ex-girlfriend.
He left, but it wasn't the end of the world, things in the cellar were quiet, because of the rain we had had. We worked slowly and kept ourselves busy.