The Tide Has Turned

Morning Ya'll,

      Well, this week has just rocketed by!  Between bud break in the vineyard, tasting's/events in Manhattan, new labels for approval, meeting with miscellaneous sales people, etc. it has been busy!  Things are moving along well in the vineyard.  Bud break has happened earlier than it has ever happened before and just like I said last week the full dandelion bloom coincided with bud break.  Dandelions are the nemesis to many, but the vineyard does look beautiful when the dandelions are in flower!  
      I attended a trade tasting in Manhattan on Monday and it went very well.  The tasting was largely attended by trade and wine writers.  The reception to the wines was very favorable and the only comment that I heard about our screw caps were positive ones.  It is great to see the trade and wine writers embracing screw caps.  They are well aware of the benefits that these have for wine.  The folks that I encountered on Tuesday night at a tasting whom were largely Manhattan twenty and thirty-something's also embraced the screw caps.  It is wonderful to see that the tide has largely turned.
     This weekend I will be attending a gathering of wine bloggers at another winery on Saturday.  It will be interesting to meet many of these people that are blazing the way of the wine world.  While the old stand-by's in print media continue to chug along, it is the medium of the web that is reaching the most people.  We are making large attempts to get ourselves more viewable on the web.  Please let our customers in the tasting room know that they may follow us on MySpace, Facebook andTwitter.  
      During the course of the past week I received many comments on the JuanMaker.  It is was interesting to see the response.  We again are paving the way in a new quirky format of tasting notes via the web.  I really want to deconstruct what has been the tradition of the tasting notes and merge them with the odd-vertising has been all around us in the past couple of years.  It seems to have struck a chord with many and I look forward to creating more of these.  So, keep on passing the word about the JuanMaker (tell them to got to youtube.com and type in juanmaker as one word)!