By GABE FRIEDMANOn a dark night in Australia in early August, Ed Schulz found himself tearing through the vast and rugged landscape in a rented car, hoping to avoid any wombats or kangaroos that might lurch in front of the car and prevent him from reaching his next client.
For Schulz, who sells American oak wine barrels for Napa-based Barrel Associate International, this is nothing unusual.
With wine-producing regions on the other side of the equator gaining prominence, Schulz said, his business from wineries looking to capitalize on the low price of American oak barrels, compared to the more highly regarded French barrels, has increased. Now, he often finds himself racing to his winery clients to deliver barrels before harvest ends in this hemisphere. Or racing to line up barrel orders before a harvest begins on the other side of the equator.
"My life never turns off," said Schulz. "I just keep going from one thing to the next."
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