I remember the first day I went to the winery, my boss Wayne came out to meet me, and the first thing I saw was: your car is so nice (it was heard countless times in the back of my trip). I was wondering, was my old bully so good? After all, this car has been 15 years, two hundred thousand kilometers, in China, this car can be directly scrapped.
Then I took a look at the boss's car and I knew it. An old Mazda pickup truck, still manual. The passing wage boy drove a car better than the boss, I don't know what his heart at that time.
You have to tell the boss two more about the car than it is about the car. Because the boss wins in terms of quantity, apart from the broken pickup, this Bedford truck, which could be my grandfather in the 1940s, is his favorite. Did any car fans know about the Bedford brand? He bought it for $2000 at that time, but now he has been pulling the goods.
This retro shape, comfy red, pull the red wine to run in the grape field, think very romantic.
There was also a funny place for the old truck, with a moustache on its face, which was really made of fur. The Australian hidden in the details of the small heart is very cute, the first time I saw the car in my heart was not good, immediately asked Wayne can let me drive? The old man froze for a moment and immediately said no.
When he regained his mind, he added another: maybe next time.. So you see, foreigners are also very concerned about face to play Taiji.
In addition to those cars, the boss has a tractor.
A few cross-country motorcycles, for his son to play.
By the way, and this forklift.
I seem to have lost again in such a match. Older men with a family and an estate have more to take care of and buy a variety of cars. And a bachelor like me can choose a car he likes without much concern.
The boss drove the old truck that day and took me to a joint winery to deliver goods. I talked to me a lot about the wineries here in Barosha (barossa valley), some of them growing their own grapes and selling their own wine, some of them collecting other people's grapes to sell their own wine, and some of the wineries themselves not growing grapes and not making wine of their own. Directly buy the wine to stick their own label, and spend a lot of money to decorate cellar door, can also sell well.
The distillery my boss took me to is an interesting existence, a feature of the meticulous division of labor and the small ecosphere in which Australia does business. This winery is a very large local factory, very modern, facilities and equipment are very advanced.
The part of people involved is much less than the traditional way of making wine, such as this device. You can understand that he is a juicer, pour the grapes in and stir up to keep the juice out. What would the traditional way of doing that be?
That's right, just step on it with your feet, just like you used to do in a bowl of salted vegetables in the winter.
What is the difference between making wine in a traditional way and making it in large quantities in an automated way?
Wayne Barra told me a lot, I'm not good enough in English, I don't understand, but one word is quite impressive, that is, "personality" character.
The traditional way of making wine, winemakers can personally participate in a bit more, the brewery will have more personal characteristics of the winemaker.
It sounds a bit like Chinese cooking, a little salt, a little soy sauce, and more or less, a taste that belongs to that person. This is probably the kind of "mom smell", "girlfriend smell".
This large barrel is full of brewing wine, which can control the temperature inside.
Wayne has wine here, and Wayne told me he had a relationship with the distillery. He can't afford these expensive equipment (of course, his land is less than enough machines). So let's rent the machine here at a more cost-effective price. In return, he will share some wine-making technology with this owner, because they seem to be simply rich, but don't know much about wine.
The size of the distillery's warehouse is also much larger than that of Wayne. There is a very interesting place, a distillery across the road, there is a special bottle-filling assembly line.
But where this can is, there's just one filling line, and he's a separate bottling company.
With the opposite winery is two bosses, such a fine division of labor really makes me a little unexpected.
In Australia, there are so few people and small markets that business is difficult to grow. Even where the industry is concentrated, we can only do a separate and complementary small business, dedicated to distinguish from others.
The only assembly line in the filling plant is that there is no digital product in Australia that sells almost as much on a street as in China, or that a town does almost all the same kind of product processing.
When I drove home that day, the boss talked to me all the way. He told me that he dropped out of school very early. He stopped going to high school at the age of 17. He didn't know what he was supposed to do and what the future would be like.
He took a train trip north and worked near the mine near flinders range (, where I would also go for a few years. Then he went on a trip to Europe and spent about a year in Portugal.
When I was about 27 years old, I went back to my hometown, went back to college and studied wine-related agriculture. After graduation, I have been working in Baroosa's big winery, growing grapes and making wine.
A few years ago, a friend was too old to retire, so he transferred the land to him and managed it. He took care of the winery full-time, his wife continued to work in other wineries and came to help him when he was not busy.
After chatting all the way, he had arrived at his house unwittingly. His house is also quite enviable, even this one small building yard is also very large.
The house is a bit old, and it was the building of the Adelaide Bank. It looks like only two floors, but it's very high. By the standard of Chinese apartments, the building can be built into three floors.
The old car in front of the house was owned by my roommate kay, a 100-hand Subaru I don't know what model, and kay bought it for $400 from someone else. Compared to the $10,000 I bought, it's a luxury car.
In the living room of the house, you can feel the high height. It feels like 4 meters. Normally, the boss also makes celler door, here. If someone wants to buy a wine tasting, they'll just sit here and entertain them.
Pay attention to the bottom left photo, the boss's 3 children, 2 girls and 1 man. This picture was taken when Wayne first took over the land.
He also found a fun corner in his house. The doorpost, which records the height of a child, is like a memory engraved on a house.
Many years later, wait for the three children to have a family, leave here, or come back after many years, the hearts will surely turn up countless memories.
I also enjoyed the experience of an authentic Australian farm, the whole process is relatively formal.
Before the meal, the Wayne couple prepared us some snacks, cheese board is the mainstream, is bread and biscuits, with a variety of vintage levels of cheese dipped in to eat.
The simple difference is that the taste from soft to hard, taste from fresh to smelly.
Personally, I like a more tender cheese, soft fragrance. Of course, it needs to be served with wine. Pick the red and white ones at will.
But at this time, drink is still more general wine, to Wayne's own wine mainly. A group of people sat in the yard in the sun, drinking and chatting.
In addition to a variety of cheese, chicken liver sauce is often used. Those who say foreigners don't eat offal can rest. And then dinner, steak, potatoes, vegetables, salad.
They put the dishes on larger plates first, and when they start, put them on their plates with spoons. Because everyone sat at a long table and couldn't reach a little farther food.
While sitting, they helped each other, a plate passed from one end to the other, and sometimes they picked up a dish for the next seat.
Personally, I like the way they eat together at home. It's very personal.
The three children on the right of the photo are Wayne children, almost in high school. I prefer the one with short hair.
At dinner, Wayne took out some good goods, this bottle of wine seems to hide a lot of years, although the fruit is no longer open, but the taste after the entrance level is very rich let me like. Of course, the years will naturally have a lot of sediment.
How long do you ask me to wake up in a wake-up device?
Sitting in the small 20 years of experience of the old driver with practical action to tell me, completely not care awake, open straight into the glass to drink, ha.
Eat and talk until the sun sets. Everyone decided to go into the room and continue eating sweets.
Wayne's wife suzi prepared dessert for me, a pie, and a pancake. It's all light sweetness, the kind that makes people eat a lot when they don't pay attention.
When eating dessert, with a bottle of sweet wine, the dessert itself is not sweet enough, but this sweet wine really makes me tired. So, at the end of the day, we'll have another latte.
From the start of the appetizer to the dessert after meal a total of three rounds, directly from 4 pm to 8 pm, although it seems to be small each time, but the end of the round will not be hungry to you.
While eating and chatting, I noticed an old picture, and boss suzi told me it was a vineyard taken by a plane more than 60 years ago.
And then I took a close-angle picture with my drones.
By careful comparison, the land really doesn't seem to have changed much for more than 60 years. So, if you're a person who can't compete with the world and want to live in peace and stability, then Australia really seems like a good place to go.
If you run your own small farm in Australia like Wayne, you may need to be prepared for hard work.
I spent more than two weeks at the winery, everything from building houses to making wine, bottling, shipping, picking olives, and nothing he didn't do.
Every day from 8: 00 a.m. to 5: 00 p.m. and Monday through Saturday, he can be seen working. He runs two farms, one winery, but the full-time staff is his own.
The wife occasionally helps, and then find some backpackers who don't spend much money. It is difficult to think about it in the Chinese way of thinking in such a way as to be the boss. After all, China has no shortage of people, sufficient manpower and cheap. Just like leek, cut a stubble and another wave. Personal cheap, easy to change, no one will cherish.
Finally, I hope that the very nice owner of the winery run better, making a lot of money.
