For close to a year we have worked, sacrificed and struggled to get out first container of wine from Argentina to Seattle, and now it is here! Is the wine out of the container and ready for purchase? Well, no. But we are so very close.
This is the journey our wine made:
1. The wine was produced, bottled, and labeled in Mendoza, Argentina.
2. The wine was shipped from the winery to a consolidation warehouse in Mendoza.
3. It was packaged into a shipping container and placed on a truck.
4. An Argentinean driver drove it across the Andean Mountain range to Santiago, Chile.
5. It was loaded onto a ship called the "Hamonium Paladium".
6. Hamonium Paladium cruised slowly up the coast of South and Central America...passing by vacationers on the beach and perhaps a whale or two.
7. Hamonium Paladium dropped our container off in a port in Mexico where it sat for a couple weeks waiting for its connecting ship. (And you think a 3 hour layover is bad...)
8. Our container was then loaded onto a ship called "Gloria 906". Ryan and I believe in omens. The fact our container came to Seattle in "Gloria" is a very good omen.
9. It cruised slowly up the coast of North America waving at the movie stars in Hollywood and the techies of Sil Valley.
10. It was then unloaded at the Port of Seattle where is stayed over the weekend waiting for a truck that finally
drove it to our warehouse in Kent, WA.The epic journey took over two months. Two month!
This afternoon we went to see the container that made this long journey across the world. To our everlasting joy, the container that we have thought about and dreamed about for almost a year was bright orange. No drab grey for this couple. Like a confident high school girl who wants to make a big impression at the prom, our wine was dressed in the loudest color ever...orange. This wine is destined to make a huge splash in Seattle.
P.S. For the enviro-conscious in the group, shipping by boat leaves a very small carbon footprint. It’s slow, but it's better for the environment than flying.
