Taaah Daaah!!!!!!!!!!!

I am honored, humbled and jumping up and down to announce to you that our wine, yes, Domaine de La Gramière 2005 Côtes du Rhône Rouge, is being featured in the Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant Newsletter this month.  I can't express to you what a thrill this is! For ten years now I have been reading his newsletter. As soon as it arrives I sit down with a cup of tea, or a glass of wine depending on what time it is, and am immediately transported to a place I love to visit.  It is a place where you visit winemakers, wineries, the French countryside, and Berkeley, California.  Sometimes your mouth waters at the thought of tasting one of these scrumptuous wines just off the boat, sometimes it's the food he describes at a local restaurant or one of their famous parking lot events.  Even while working at the store, every month we would all delight in the moment we first got to read the proofs for the upcoming newsletter.  Well, here it is everyone, Kermit faxed me the proof for his December newsletter, and we are in it!  My hands are shaking and my heart is pounding even as I type this. I hope I never wake up from this wonderful dream....

Comments

[Iris]

Congratulations, Amy! I can fully understand your exitement, pride and pleasure - this will be a good start for your exports.... for me too, it was a wonderful feeling to read my name - or rather the name of my Lisson wines for the first time in newspapers I had always read before - you should tell M Lynch to put also your blog adress into his newsletter, your blog is such a pleasure to read!

[Mike Duffy]

What a great ad. With that kind of a story, I'm sure he's going to sell a lot of Rouge. Congrats. It's been a pleasure to read of your progress through the blog.

[French Wine Explorers]

Bravo, Amy and Matt! From the first time we saw the old vats in back of your house and heard you had bought vineyard land, we knew you'd make a fine wine. Kermit Lynch just confirms our feeling - and we haven't even tasted the wine yet! Looking forward to doing so this summer. Great work, you guys!

[Terry Hughes]

Well done, Amy and Matt. What an exceptional reward -- so soon -- for your hard work.

Now if I could only toast you with a glass of it here in la Grande Pomme...

[Steven Lanum]

You may not remember me, but I vividly recall meeting you two in 2001 after touring vineyards with Rich K. You were living my life! Seems you haven't stopped either! I guarantee I will check out your wine. Sounds like you managed to get everything right. (I'll also go back and start reading through your archives on this blog.) Felicitations!

[Terry Hughes]

That's good news too. Just let me know when and where it becomes available in NYC.

Cheers!

[John]

Congragulations for achieving what you had settled for. I would suggest you to go ahead and compete for the internation wine maker of the year because this is not the end of world here.