A Day in the Life of a Cellar Master
From dawn tastings to midnight pump-overs during harvest.
During harvest the cellar master barely sleeps. The day starts with tasting tanks before sunrise and ends with a last check of temperatures after midnight. In between is a blur of decisions that cannot wait until morning.
We shadowed one through a single twenty-hour day to understand the strange mix of chemistry, intuition and stubbornness the job demands.
