This is one of the two biggest wine casks in the world (the other's in Germany). It's made of redwood, holds 59,666 gallons, and if you were to drink one bottle of wine out it per day you could polish the lot off in 825 years. See parents, drinking is educational!


This is me when I was angry at my digital camera for not working. It's hard to work up a full head of anger in a place like that.


That's me (on the right) with some vines (on the left). They're short because it's springtime.


Here's me in the Joseph Phelps Vineyard. I just can't get enough photos of me...


For the sake of comparison, this is my mum standing in the same place last November (it's April now). Similarities in clothing colour schemes are entirely coincidental, I assure you.


The champagne tasting was the best bit.