No author actually likes to jot down. I prefer to make love and drink wine. At my age I should not lose time with the rest, however I am unable to cease writing. It is a illness. — Rubem Fonseca
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. — Anthony G. Oettinger
One-Yr Anniversary
One week shy of 1 12 months in the past right this moment I posted the inaugural version of this, my Tiny Vineyards publication. Now, 30 newsletters later (see archive), I’m about to embark on 12 months two. I can’t inform you how superb this feels, as it could most likely simply come out in some type of sappy-sentimental, cliché-clad, alliteration-laced verbal vomit (see, I can’t assist myself!), which I already impose upon you far too typically.
What I can say, although, no doubt, is that this whacky journal of a journey would by no means have occurred with out your beneficiant assist as a subscriber. And for that I want to sincerely thanks—and in the identical breath overtly implore you to do it once more when your discover of renewal exhibits up in your inbox. For a lot of of you courageous and magnanimous souls, you early adopters, you literary risk-takers, that’s going to occur but someday this month. However regardless of whenever you first began studying Tiny Vineyards, I hope you’ll keep the course.
It’s going to be an eye-opener of a second 12 months as we go from the historical past and how-to of winemaking into the world of sensory evaluation, varietal appreciation, branding, licensing, advertising and marketing, the formation of the Tiny Vineyards Wine firm, the dissolution of the Tiny Vineyards Wine Firm and chapter (ha, simply kidding!)—with a bit little bit of hands-on viticulture and oenophilic trivia thrown in.
Eclectic and enlightening as ever!
And don’t concern—you’re persevering with to accrue wine credit score for each greenback you spend in your subscription and renewal, which suggests you’ll get all of it again in super-premium wine someday in autumn 2023. That wine is safely via its preliminary crafting, is already tasting fairly rattling yummy, and has begun over a 12 months of ageing in lovely French oak barrels.
So, what’s subsequent?
The primary twelve months of the Tiny Vineyards publication targeted on my (nonetheless) inconceivable evolution as an novice dwelling winemaker and gradual coming-of-age as knowledgeable boutique winemaker. Now, we’re going to get critical about all of this, as a result of I’ve obtained 200 instances of wine to promote within the to not distant future!
