Secondly, unlike the regular tasting room experience, you've got the undivided attention of your guide for the whole of the session, rather than having him or her heading backwards or forwards between two, three or four groups of tasters to satisfy two, three or four sets of insatiable curiosities.
It also means that having made an appointment you're likely to be keeping someone else waiting if you're late.
In any case Rhonda was in the middle of a session when we arrived, and interrupted it to greet us and point out that Steve was either in the winery or in the Riesling block, and had suggested we track him down when we arrived. That wasn't as difficult as it might have been since the figure we'd sighted on the way in was now involved in putting newly picked fruit through the de-stemmer. More...
