My Sula Experience
My idea of a wine yard has always been a romantic one obviously influenced by the movie ” Walk in the Clouds ” which has Oh so HOT Keanu Reeves! 
The Sula vineyard that I visited was not as large as I expected it to be ( only 35 acres ), but it turned out that they had 350 acres stashed somewhere else too! The lighting wasn’t all that good for pictures as I reached only at 5 in the evening, but I still managed to take quite a few ok ones…
On the way to the vineyard we passed by these beautiful fields of some type of grain :P( sorry I ain’t all that informed on types of grain ) I just had to stop and take this very “cliche” picture. I just had to!!
Sula had advertised that the very cool grape stomping tradition would take place and I was really looking forward to getting my feet into the thick of things! 
When the time finally came I decided against making my own personal “feet flavour” of Grape Squash. People who’ve seen my feet would thank me for not taking that juicy step! Instead, I got a picture of two very lovely feet!
I met my very good friend Kenneth D’Silva at the place too and Shreyas, Kenneth and I decided we would learn to perfect our wine making skills and take the guided tour! There was really cool machine that removed all the grapes from their stems, and they also had huge cylinders filled with fermented grape juice. It was really quite cool actually, but the smell was really pungent and we quickly got out of the brewery….
This is a picture of the lovely Sula grapes…
This is a picture of me wishing I was swimming in the huge cylinder containing wine!
After the tour came the wine tasting session. We learnt how to actually “taste” the wine by smelling it first, gargling it in your mouth before taking it in… I was actually surprised what a difference it made if you smelt the wine before tasting it! I’m not too sure of the gargling bit though! The guy who was explaining the whole process to us was really sweet and I managed to record him describing each wine too! Will put up a recording soon… Here’s Shreyas and me taking classic pictures posing with our wine…
My most favorite wine was “The Sula Late Harvest Chenin Blanc” which is a sweet sweet smelling white wine. It also has the highest alcohol content among all Sula wines and I must second that fact! 
If you any of you guys are ever planning to start drinking wine, this is the wine to start with!!!!
You can see the rest of my Sula trip here. The Sula fest is happening next year too… See ya all there.
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