Road trip and tour

After finishing our evaluation session on this weeks seminar we went to visit a local winery.

This consisted of over one million litres of wine stored in the biggest barrels I have ever seen (and to say I work in a pub I've seen a fair few!!)

We learnt of the process involved in making wine, from the grape to the fermentation and the maturation of the wine itself. We even saw how they bottled the wine a sealed the cork.

Then came the tasting. We tried a taster of a full bodied red...its fair to say it went down well!

After visiting the winery we headed off to a local farm house and museum. We were given a tour of the museum by its founder and world record holder Emilio Arenas. He started collecting pencils at the age of ten and he now owns the world record for the most amount of pencils owned, currently standing at 16, 262.
His pencils were displayed in cabinets for all to see and he had a logical filing system going on. He was clearly very proud of his collection, some of which had been given to him by US presidents.

After the tour we sat down in a group and played games before being treated to an epic BBQ...Latin American style!! A double griddle and meat galore! After food we enjoyed watching a traditional dance before being asked to join in ourselves. Lets just say some were more apt than others...

Tomorrow people start to depart as they head home or to Paraguay for the remainder of the evaluation seminar. I'll have the tissues ready at breakfast!!