It was such an incredible opportunity and an absolute privilege to have Dean, Sarah and Aaron here to share some stories, fruit and booze with.
We called in a few favours and pulled an impressive 'rent-a-crowd' to be in the background of the shots, and did our best to showcase our winery. We also did an epic clean up and re-organise of our wine cellar. It looks incredible in there now, and we're about to launch our 'tour package' to take guests through the cellar to learn about the winemaking process, then through the orchard to look at the trees and then back to the cellar for some tastings. By having a 'trade ready' product, it means we're ready to start selling ourselves to tour companies and can have some larger groups come through.
Todays adventure started with Aaron the cameraman taking some shots around the place, and then a few takes of "ok, bring the coffee out and put it down on the table...ok, great. Now take it away and do it again, but at this angle instead. Awesome. Now, same again, but use your other hand....perrrrfect".
We then moved out the back into the cellar to give Dean, the host, a sample of our tawny port straight from the barrel. We had some casual banter, and he gave us a great sell - raving about how great our port was!
We were then filmed picking some carambola, and using our crusher to show the start of the winemaking process. Next, we showed the gang around the fruit trees, and with some creative camera angles made it look like we still had heaps of jaboticaba fruit.
All up, the guys were here for nearly three hours, and they seemed pretty impressed with our set up.
It's pretty incredible to think that we've only been here for a few months and have already received so much free publicity! We've been in the regional newspaper a few times, and now national tv - it's pretty ridiculous! Sarah, the producer, thinks the show will go to air in September sometime in Queensland, and then national a week later. I'm so excited - I'll definitely let you all know when to tune in!
We've also just found out that a new boat charter from Bundaberg to Lady Musgrave Island (on the Southern Great Barrier Reef) will be stocking our wine and liqueurs as part of their 'premium tour' service! I'm not too sure what we've done to deserve all this good luck and great news, but I'm incredibly grateful. It gives me a bit of hope that we've actually made a good decision moving here and we might actually make a bit of money one day...!!
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| Josh is thrilled with his cool new purple shirt |
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| Josh heading back to the shed with Sarah and Dean |
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| A close up of Dean sampling a jaboticaba fruit. "Wait. How do I say this again?" |
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