Awards

David should be proud of himself with the awards that are rolling in. I didn't comment about it yesterday and felt that I should tonight. It is always nice to know that people in the industry appreciate your hard work. Great job David!

The flyer for the Wine and Art Festival is almost taken care of. Ads will be going out in newspapers and magazines. Radio ads will start and tv spots. We are also planning a grand reopening during Father's Day weekend. I think we have a date for a wine maker's dinner. There is a lot going on at the winery.

Rob spent today filtering wine, the nameless sweet red. We are working on naming it. David was busy in the lab doing what he does. He also put together a white blend that my be our next Cuvee Prestige. It will need a little work but was nice.

We got our glass order today and it came damaged. There are ripped boxes and broken bottles. Our rep is coming tomorrow to take pictures. They will replace them. I just feel bad that it happened at all.

I think I will get our polylam capsules ordered by the end of the week. I went through part of the numbers this afternoon. There are so many varying things from each company. We'll see how it goes.

I need to get more glass ordered soon. We hope to be bottling under the new label within a few weeks. I must get started on the labels...tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. I will be going to a meeting in town (Eugene) about the barrel tour coming up May 31. Then it I will go by the printers to see if we can get the labels going. Then by an office store for a date stamp and Costco for cheese and dog food. Who knows what else will get added to my list by the time I leave tomorrow.

I have had a request for more technical information in my blog. I will try to incorporate more info. I will take notes during the day and see if I can get it right when I write about it later. About as technical as I get is when I send off wine sample to be tested for alcohol and V.A. and other stuff I can't spell (lactic and melolactic fermentation or something like that). I will take notes and get back to you.

Cheers to you all!