Winemaker

cool, cool.

But I took a job with Hardee's in the Yarra Valley as the Yarra Bird and Wine Maker.

Yeah.

And it kind of worked because it was Yarra Valley, so it was near a bunch of mates and close enough to Jano's family.

Cool.

And you're still, so you stepped down in 2021, was it? 22.

22 as Chief Wine Maker.

So around the sort of time that Jackson family bought it.

Read by Dennis Sayers.

Dr. Faustus, Vintner, First Friar, Covetousness, and Gluttony.

Read by Algy Pug.

Mephistophilis, Knight, First Scholar, Envy, and Narrator.

But Robin, here comes the vintner.

Hush, I'll gull him supernaturally.

Enter Vintner.

Drawer, I hope all is paid.

Cunningham, it looks like Henry.

Gary Michael, Vintner.

Anne Draper.

G-U-I-N-A-N-E.

Grocer.

Provider.

And Vintner.

Heather Patrick.

Glad he gets to do it one more time.

So with this, uh, Vintner business behind us, how will we occupy ourselves? I have been thinking about the pleasure barge.

Poor Brona.

That fabulous ship.

Read by Dennis Sayers.

Dr. Faustus, Vintner, First Friar, Covetousness and Gluttony.

Read by Algie Pag.

Mephistophilus, Knight, First Scholar, Envy, and Narrator.

That is where you will walk down the boulevards, on either side with Baroque and Gothic and high art structural buildings, the type that you see only in your dreams or only in expensive magazines.

And every one of them is made for a champagne house, for a Vintner label that you know and you've seen all your life, with thousands of bottles under the ground with caves and the ability to eat at the finest of restaurants.

Now, once in a while, you will not be eating on the barge, but you will be invited to some of the top star restaurants in that part of France.

And in every case, you will have a high-end luxury experience.

I come from southwest of France.

We are Vigneron in Madiran, a very small area.

And I grew up in this region.

So my stepfather, Alain Brumont, and my mother own this company since they are the first generation of this domain, Château Montus and Château Bouscassé.

The Saturday event was really fun.

It was a Vintner's Cup where winemakers played as a captain and then three people played with them.

It was a best ball, team best ball.

So with handicaps, so essentially you got whatever, whoever had the best score in your foursome, that was the score you kept net.

And he's like, you know, and he like, he raises his paddle and he makes the contribution and he matches the 110.

And, and it's, it's one of those moments where it, it, A, it's, that Vintner never came back to that event.

That's right.

Never, never.

Well done.

Well, goose is cooked.

I mean, and he's an incredibly generous donor in Vintner, but like for that moment, it was like, oh, I can't just safely bid someone else up at this event, right? Like they double so many auction lots that I could not just go play and know that, you know, and then only give 25,000 in the fund a need, right? Yeah.

Anything I do is gonna, and so that was it.