Sula Wines:Distribution Unleashed

As a part of our distribution project in college, we got the most sought after product:WINES.Now the best way to read the subject is practically observe things..and we made the most out of it.As soon as we heard the topic,a solution came up..lets go to Sula Wines in Nashik(approx 200km from Mumbai)

Yipee!!There is some topic of roaming around and I am not there..impossible!!

So I, Akash and Shubhangi planned to visit there.Too early..5am I woke up and we started our journey at 6am.It rained like cats and dogs today and to add to our pleasure, the bus we took (apparently Neeta volvo) was leaking from here and there.So half of our excitement was lost.The quarter was taken away by the 7 hours long time it took to drop us at Mumbai Nashik highway.

What about the remaining quarter?There was no transport to drop us to Sula Vineyard which was 13 kms inside.So all excitement gone :(

Finally after changing 3-4 different auto rickshaws, we reached the vineyard at 2pm.It was beautiful..seems like heaven to us.Lovely meadows, beautiful lake surrounded by hills.The rains were adding icing to the cake which melted our minds and heart.

There we had the wine tour..right from the crop growing to labeling was shown to us.It was amazing to see turning grapes into an alcoholic drink.Then they made us taste 6 different types of wines.We enjoyed the rains, the weather and the nature with the glass of wine in our hands(For your information..I don't drink)

After a series of several photographs and almost 100 questions asked by Akash to the guide(the primary reason for us coming to this place...which we ignored..lol)..we ended our trip on a sweet note with a walnut brownie.

But a good question was at hand..how will we go back?

No transport was available for the next 3 kms and I was in no mood to walk.We thought to take a lift but Akash said "I am feeling shy to ask for a lift!!".

To our savior, a gentleman offered us a lift and we finally reached our destination to catch the bus back to Mumbai.

I just reached at midnight and now am getting back to sleep with the sweet memories of this trip to the lap of nature.

Trek to Peth Village

Sunday morning..3.30am the alarm rang.I woke up and called almost 5 folks to wake up too.It's 4.15 am and I reached and pre-decided place.Monsoon season and weekend off.What could be better than an outing.

A group of 13 p

eople, quiet adventurous(Supposedly!),nature loving, fun loving etc etc started their way up to the Peth village.It was supposedly a small trek of just 1 hr(pun intended)..Tejas is gonna get killed by Neha for sure..

To my surprise, it started raining.Well the surprise was not rains but my broken umbrella.So I decided to en

joy the rains and get wet ;)

In the very beginning, we took the wrong route and went a km ahead..waste of energy for 2 km..huh.

Many small groups were formed during the trek and some drunkards were lulling to drink too which they did.Imagine drinking on the trek!!!

The path was too slippery, full of rocks and lovely scenic beauty :).The journey was full of adventure, beauty and romance too ;)

We finally arrived to the Peth village and only 9 of us were left together.Now the actual trekking started to the Kothligad fort.To my wonder,the ascend was 90 degrees and there was no route at all.Only big and small, some loosed and tighten rocks.

Our bodies tolerated all extremes-heavy rains, light rains, threatening view of the valley and came to our saviour was our little guide Pankaj :)

Somehow each one of us managed to climb with each others support.The view from the top was amazing as we could barely see anything except the clouds..lol

Now came the descend..It was slippery rock only and it rained too heavily, then he

avy winds and all the clouds were gone..where am I standing?

I was on the edge of that slippery rock with valley deep down below.It was nerve wrenching but somehow managed to come down.I had never feared for life till date..

The trek finally ended on a good note apart from the sprain in the leg I got which made it difficult to come down.Thanks to Akash, Anshul and Tejas for helping me out.

Though I cribbed a lot but now I feel that experience was worthwhile for a lifetime.