Sam's Journal Entry

April 8, 2009

Last week we found out what bottling was really about! For two solid days we devoted out time to bottling our Pinot Grigio and Viognier. Thanks to "good working equipment" and healthy helpers the event went without a hitch. In total we bottled about 500 cases of wine. Now we have to give the wine a bit of a rest in the bottle as it does get agitated in processing. The wine goes through what the industry calls"Bottle Shock". For some wines this takes about one month to settle down and for others a bit longer. In the meantime our labels for these wines have been submitted to the "Feds" to be approved and should be sent to the printer to have the labels made up.

After this we WILL have wine to sell!! Yea!
As many of you know the first weekend in May is "Spring Release Weekend" in Walla Walla. We had projected to be open or at least have wine to taste and sell to our followers but unfortunately our wines won't be ready by then. The positive side of this whole thing is that when we are ready we will have the opportunity to have another party! Sounds good to me.
We will keep you posted on the progress we make. Till then Adios!

Sam and Deb

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