Since the beginning of my professional winemaking, I’ve struggled with keeping records. Beyond the inner beast that prevent me from writing down proper notes, recording the activities of winemaking can become a rather complex task. Batches come into the winery one at a time, but many of them are immediately split into various tanks, then later get blended and so on and so forth. Keeping track of bottling seems pretty straight forward, but everything else seems to exist on various planes, sometimes seemingly all at once.
So how to keep track of this. I’ve done fairly well (by clyde standards) at keeping daily logs of activities. One of the drawbacks I’ve had was that for the most part, I work alone. In my training, all the wine activities were dictated by an “excecutive” winemaker, so daily operations were at least recorded in a work order form. I write work orders for myself, but have never kept them as a record. Quite possibly, this type of action might do the trick. One of the features of a blog like this, the main one that made me choose it as a medium of recording things, is the excellent calendar type function and the associated seach-ability of daily activity. I can rarely remember dates, but can get in the ballpark, especially if the day of the week is displayed.
Anyway, enough babble and on to the nitty gritty. If you’ve stumbled upon this surfing for something of substance, I apologize, unless of course you found something of substance here. For now, I’m keeping the comments feature turned off. Other blogs I’ve had were quickly found by spam shitheads and became an instant playground for those seeking monetary gain from the most unscrupulous means. If you feel so compelled to comment, I’d be happy to hear it and might possibly add it to a post if it seems warranted.
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Since the beginning of my professional winemaking, I’ve struggled with keeping records. Beyond the inner beast that prevent me from writing down proper notes, recording the activities of winemaking can become a rather complex task. Batches come into the winery one at a time, but many of them are immediately split into various tanks, then later get blended and so on and so forth. Keeping track of bottling seems pretty straight forward, but everything else seems to exist on various planes, sometimes seemingly all at once.
So how to keep track of this. I’ve done fairly well (by clyde standards) at keeping daily logs of activities. One of the drawbacks I’ve had was that for the most part, I work alone. In my training, all the wine activities were dictated by an “excecutive” winemaker, so daily operations were at least recorded in a work order form. I write work orders for myself, but have never kept them as a record. Quite possibly, this type of action might do the trick. One of the features of a blog like this, the main one that made me choose it as a medium of recording things, is the excellent calendar type function and the associated seach-ability of daily activity. I can rarely remember dates, but can get in the ballpark, especially if the day of the week is displayed.
Anyway, enough babble and on to the nitty gritty. If you’ve stumbled upon this surfing for something of substance, I apologize, unless of course you found something of substance here. For now, I’m keeping the comments feature turned off. Other blogs I’ve had were quickly found by spam shitheads and became an instant playground for those seeking monetary gain from the most unscrupulous means. If you feel so compelled to comment, I’d be happy to hear it and might possibly add it to a post if it seems warranted.