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Very tired at this point, even though I had a long night of sleep. I guess these things are always a bit of an ordeal. I don't think I could handle a real wine trip. But of course that's not my business. I can see that Mike is good at it.
It's late morning now and we're getting ready to leave the Steigenberger Avance Hotel in Krems. Long drive (3 plus hours) to the final wine maker today. They have kidnapped us for the afternoon, evening, and night. Nobody is sure what to expect from this one. I'm not familiar with their wines at all.
It has been very foggy every day, so it's hard to get too much sense of the country side. Rudi Pichler took us up into the steeply terraced gruner veltliner vinyards. The stone work of the terraces is very impressive. Quite ancient stuff. We would have had some great views of the Wachau valley, but it was left mostly to our imagination. Looks like more of the same today.
Everyone is getting along well. It's nice to have the laptop, and all my music, in the car. Now if only there was wi-fi data connections everywhere.
Tomorrow we're headed back into Vienna.