The lives of vineyard owners and winemakers are far more unglamorous and unpredictable than you'd think
Despite years of studying and learning from professional winemakers before he opened a vineyard, the sheer amount of work required to run a winery still surprised Tony Smith, the owner of"Wine-making is romantic to some people, and sometimes it is romantic. But there's just a lot of hard work," he told Insider."It's much harder than I thought it would be."
in a layer of ash and permeated the grapes with an unpleasant flavor similar to cigarette smoke. In Texas, a weeklong snap of freezing cold weather and hailstorms killed buds on Smith's flowering vines and plummeted his output to a fraction of the previous year. On the East Coast,"In the wine world there's something always going on, whether it's dealing with weather, whether we're having rain or no rain, dealing with wildfires," Davis said.
"It's like cooking," he said."There's a recipe to make a wine, but if you follow the recipe, you're going to make something barely drinkable." When deciding which grapes to pick every day — around October he's choosing Cabernet Sauvignons and Merlots — he measures the sugar content but bases his decision on whether the grapes have a compelling flavor.
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