Arrival at the Vineyards

Joe: So this dude who had drunk too much wine and hence broken his hand in a toothpick fight kept talking about some chevy blond n other blond. So while Namrata took notes, I shot some shots - photos I mean.

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Ye yes, I did take some notes. Look like sheets of music my notes. Ok so we go to this awesome vineyard near Nasik, started by this dude from Stanford, called Rajeev Samant. He like chucked his fine job in the U.S. of A to become a farmer in Nasik. Went for some euro trip I guess where he liked the wine and got back some grape plants… vines i think… planted them in Nasik in 1996 and they like grew immediately.. very well.. awesome na!?

But not everything went so well and he could only harvest them grapes in 1999. They made their first bottle of wine at that time but all family and friends guzzled it before he could stop the. So had to make wine again. Wait for grapes to grow again.

Of course he had some help, firangi fellow who is some wine canoshier helps him blend and cook the wine. All this Harshal told me, poor guy with broken hand. Cant serve wine like his other friends on the first floor, so has to give wine tours, must be so boring na.

Neway these chappies grow the grapes, did you know there are two types of grapes, no not green and black u morons, but table grapes that are seedless that we eat at home at the dinner table and the seedwala grapes that u can make wine from. So that means if u ever bought seedwala grapes home, eat they carefully or u might get really really high!

O ya! these people very serious abut making wines, didnt appreciate when we asked if we can jump on the grapes and make own wine. Says that is only done once a year, during party, we make wine with fully neumatic… automatic process.

Neway, the weather here is awesome! lake nearby and people sipping wine. We then went for the wine tasting - 6 different types of wine - dry, rose, brut and some other stuff… good stuff this… some cheapo uncles asking harshal’s friends to pour more for the tastings, so sad na!

Neway, harshal like slips us extra wine coz we were so attentive and asked such intelligent questions. We have wine, joe takes a plate of cheese apperitifs, God I am so much more french now after all that wine! So we dont pay for cheese, Joe takes someone else’s plate, he takes some good pictures also.

Than we drive back all the way to Taj hotel. Best hotel in Nashik. On the way I think we lost that wheel. But could be earlier also. No idea.Going to crash now. Feel woozy. Joe is sleeping at the steering wheel only.

Gnite.

Hic!