Segway Napa: 3 blokes on Segways; Team Building

Crush Update: Today is probably the wettest days ever in recent memory during crush, we may get as much as 4 inches of rain!

Lots of vineyard managers and winemakers hurried to get the fruit off the vine this past weekend - the brix was not yet what they were hoping for. The aftermath of Typhoon Melor that hit Japan last week is wreaking havoc!

3 Blokes on Segways
I was getting ready for one tour when I received a call from someone wanting a Yountville tour the next morning. He wanted to come by the shop to check things out. Well, we don’t have a shop. Like many Segway businesses – we are mobile and bring the Segways to where you want to go!
What I liked was how he phrased this – we’re just three blokes who want to ride Segways – can you give us a private tour, we shouldn’t be around other people– we want to taste wine! After some discussion I decided to take them to the Verismo tasting room to start.

Austin was great – he poured 4 delicious wines, told how the Stella label was named after the family dog, and was willing to pour other wines upon request. After a great stop - we were on our way. We rode through some vineyards – my blokes were definitely on the wild side! I felt like a mom telling them to be careful, don’t scare the cars, go slow around people. Like many boys, they didn’t listen.

So I took them on some roads less traveled. One bloke – he was late 40’s I think, just went crazy – even on turtle mode he was zipping around – he laughed almost the entire time!
Our next stop was at a boutique winery that allows you to do hand punch downs. Hopper Creek is just the most unique experience. They got to chat with Winemaker Joseph inside the winery.

I know, I sound like a broken record – but if you want to get up close and personal to the grapes during crush – the Segway Yountville Tour is a MUST DO! They have two nice patios where you can enjoy watching the grapes ripen, our Dan’s vegetable garden grow. The dogs that hang there are in the Vineyard Dog books. The blokes really loved getting their hands stained, and winemaker Barry

hung around to answer a lot of technical questions. All in all, I’d say it was a great tour!

Glide Your Way to Team Building!
So many companies are doing Team Building to get their employees to bond, to hone leadership skills, and to make, well, a team.

Segway Napa has jumped on that band wagon! At first we tried “leading your partner by blindfold” - that was disastrous! Then we tried an obstacle course. That was ok, but hey, who wants to waste time on a Segway going back and forth at the park. We finally realized that segwaying together through the beautiful countryside

, visiting a winery – relaxing with wine and cheese – was really enough for the team building experience. Some from our recent team told us it was the best team building they’d ever done! And they do it often! Put a feather in my cap “)