Top 10 Things a Winemaker Hates
1. When the grape truck breaks down on a rainy day
2. The cigarette smoke from a winery worker while unloading grapes
3. Finding the scissors stuck in the gears of the destemmer after being hidden in the box of harvested grapes
4. Cell phone falling into the fermentation vat
5. Someone diving into the lagar
6. A little hole in a barrel
7. Ridiculously small glasses to taste wine
8. Cork vendors
9. Capping the bottle without a cork
10. Men and woman wearing strong perfume at a wine tasting
What you would add?
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Something similar that sometimes happens to us is the long time it takes to deliver some small orders from individuals customers, like a case of bottles, we use to send through express mail. First the Customs don’t want to release it. Then the local deliverer doesn’t recognize the address. And sometimes the client fairly complanes about the service…
Or how about when your warehouse delivers samples of highly prized Quevedo Port wines to the wrong people in the wrong state? I REALLY hate that!
Quevedo was founded in 1991 as a family owned business in the heart of the Douro valley, responding to the needs of the generations that preceded the associate founders. These ancestors were passionately dedicated to their vineyards and to the culture that surrounded the production of wine. Consequently, the company was created as a seamless marriage between the initial phase of production and the promotion and selling of their wines. Currently, the estate is comprised of 100 hectares located in the regions of Cima-Corgo and Douro Superior, producing both red and port wines from only the five traditional port grapes Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão and Tinta Barroca. 
I’m no winemaker, but don’t you hate it when your wines get stuck in Customs for months on end?