Boring Day to Day Stuff …
I dragged all the empty barrels out of the cellar room this week. (pic on left) We’ve got 62 empties right now, most of which had the ‘06 wines in them. Every barrel got a wash, inside and out, and gassed again with sulfer dioxide. As I’ve said before we’ve also got 12 new barrels that went unused last fall that we’ll use this year. We beat a pretty big price increase due to the value of the dollar vs. the euro too.
We had a huge ‘ZinFest’ Saturday (May 17) and a gigantic crowd at our release event the next day and we want to say thanks to everyone who turned out and had fun and tasted wine and listened to “The Detours” rock the house. Too bad it was so blazing hot; everyone complains about it, but no one ever does anything about the weather.
Other stuff: I’ve also been working on some behind the scene changes with the m2 web site, nothing you’ll ever notice, but hey, it’s taken a lot of time. Also, you can now join our mailing list via the web site. Right now the only place to do so is on the home page, but I’m going to be adding the code/form to other pages. The wine order page has also been updated with all the new ‘06 and ‘07 wines.
We’re also busting butt to get the labels for the 2007 Viognier and the 2006 Artist Series Zinfandel printed. We didn’t have the artwork finished in time for our bottling on March 1 and since it wasn’t a priority we’ve kept putting it off until now, after it’s way too late and everybody wants the wine.
We’ve got a lot of events planned for the summer and fan so keep an eye on the website and the events calendar!