How to get covered in must and wine

How to get covered in must and wine:
Get inside of the tank after draining off most of the juice but with the must still inside. But don't get into the tank any old way. Go in through the opening near the bottom, the manhole. Look up and bend over backwards and slide in through the manhole on your back. Once your backside is firmly on the bottom inside of the tank, push yourself further into the tank and therefore, sliding more into the remaining juice. Stand up inside tank and shovel the must out. The must that is up to your knees inside the tank.

That is how you can get covered in must and wine.

This is the tank I was in:

Although you can't really see the wine stains on the back of my pants, this is my backside after shoveling out the tank:

And this is me actually in the tank. Smiling. Having a blast because it is my first of many times I will ever be inside a tank.




If I ever get around to scanning childhood pictures, I will show you how perfect this job is for me. When I was a little girl, I would actually play with five gallon buckets and a waterhose in the summer time. I made mud pies. Mud villages. I climbed trees barefoot. I got filthy during the summers when I could be free and play wherever I wanted. But I also loved school, especially science.

So this job is the best of both those worlds. I love the physical labor part of my job and how most of the time, I am covered in grapes, wine samples and water. And then there is the science part of my job where I can spend a whole day in the lab and feel like I have only been there for a couple of hours.

How did I luck out again?

Don't get me completely wrong though, there are downfalls. Some days I am just exhausted and don't wanna move, let alone bins and buckets of wine and cleaning chemicals all day. THere are some days when I can't get my chemicals standardized or solutions mixed up properly or experiments to go correctly. Those days are frustrating.

But, overall, I am hooked.