Working a 12-hour night shift in a wine cellar is bound to make anyone temporarily insane. I’ve been living the 7pm to 7am night shift life in Napa as a wine harvest intern for the last few weeks now and I have a few tidbits to share on how to make it to the other side with your wits in tact.

So you’re working your first wine harvest! You’re excited and doe-eyed and can’t wait to (figuratively, hopefully) get in there and stomp those grapes with your bare feet. If you Google “wine harvest attire” it will return a plethora of semi-useless results. Take some lessons from me, a current first time harvest cellar worker, and learn from my infinite wisdom aka all the mistakes that I made in packing.