Pepe2008 Heading for the Sun!

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Re: Pepe2008 Heading for the Sun!

Updates, good timing! Just sitting here dying from the 'grippe', very much like flu and just as 'orrible.
Yep, life is good but hard work, but at least we are doing it for ourselves.
Last year was a bumper year for wine and olives for us. Not for all though. Late rains set off the olive fly and, as the continued, the warm, wet air helped them hatch and start eating the fruit. Some mills didn't even open. I spent 10 days up the trees in the p-ing rain and got them picked.
The wine was a similar thing. We had some late summer rains and then a really hot August and that brought along the grape-ripening early where the vines were in the sun. We made ours in 3 batches....all the old boys down the village were still muttering that 'grapes get picked on 12th September', guess what?? It rained for a week. We got 200 litres of red ( our 2013 red won 4th place at a Regional Competition ) and then some friends that were unexpectedly returning to the UK said to go ahead and use their white grapes....result!!! 200 litres of white.

Still picking away at a few things from our past because we maintain some UK links to make life a bit easier, but it's all under control. No-one really has a clue what to do, they still try lying (and skimming through a few sites, that still seems to be the way.

My tip, do your best to lead them into a Complaint, it's easy to do.

I know this is an old post (just catching up) when you get a mo can you expand on this a bit please....thx and glad you're still having a great time