Together with our friend Jeremie and my cousin Andre we decided to start a new life project- to set up a winery in the Argentinean province of Mendoza, at the foot of the Andes
2 months have passed since we started with the planting process and even though some individual samples did not come out of the ground we have had a remarkable start. The only variety, which couldn't make it was Cabernet Franc (2000 units), which we will plant in 2007.
While we are still waiting for the delivery of the new tractor, our people are busy in keeping the vineyard free of bugs and bushes. We pass through the aisles twice with a rented tractor to keep our wine plants healthy.
Our architect, agronomist and myself had several meetings to define how to best use the central square of the finca for construction purposes (hotel, lake, etc...)
While the plants are growing fast, we have several workers looking after the olive trees, wine plants and trying to control the small bushes. Some of them also have a little siesta to recover energy for the afternoon.
To celebrate the new housing facilities we organised an asado and invited our architect, Christoph- a friend from Austria and Cristobal Undurraga,the agronomist of Montes, our neighbour
After 4 weeks of work we finalised repairing the existing house to allow Chucki- our Finca supervisor and Irrigation specialist a decent accomodation. It only needs some painting