We thank you for your support!

Remember that old Bartles and Jaymes ad?  "...and thank you for your support."  Well, I have to say thank you to all of you who are out there reading along and joining us on our adventure.  It really is amazing.  I've been getting emails and comments posted from many of you, and I really, truly appreciate all of the good thoughts you have been sending our way!

Here's an example of an email I received this morning from Pat:

Wow!  I just finished reading your account of your visit with Kermit Lynch and taking an order from him for your red wine.  You know, I share in a small way your feelings of success and happiness because reading your blog has taken me along on your journey.  Please keep up the blog…I am waiting with great anticipation to see how the upcoming harvest goes, the winemaking and, of course, how your second vintage turns out.

I’ll also keep an eye out for a mention of your wine in Kermit’s newsletter, because I can’t think of a better way of cementing this long range bond with you at La Gramiere than opening a bottle, toasting you both across the ocean and tasting your wine.  Cheers! 

            Pat B.

Now, I want you to know that I don't know Pat B., I just received this email out of the blue this morning.  It's so exciting how much goodwill this blog has created towards our project.  Thank you so very much, to Fritz, Terry, Kelli, Pat, John, Maryanne, Iris, Rob...all of you who post comments and send emails from time to time, I love it! 

Comments

[Rob Cole]

Well, it's so great because you're living my dream right now. I'm sure there are others here that feel that way too!

[JohnG]

Pat is so right - it gives you an unbelievably full, kind of Proustian experience with a wine when you taste it and you can remember exactly what the vineyard looks like and what the weather is like and even have a sense of the people who tended the vines or made the grapes. And Rob is right too. It's more than the dream of just making wine - heck, I live in Sonoma County and I know lots of winemakers and growers, so if I really really wanted to make some wine I guess I could. It's also going off to a wonderul faraway place and living amongst interesting people while living your dream. I think that really resounds with lots of people. Well we fulfill our dreams where we can. One of mine was realized yesterday, when I took the kids down the street for the first day of school, and was able to come home and start my first day of uninterupted work in nearly three months.