Holiday travels and tastings...

Well, I'm back everyone, after almost 2 weeks of being on the road and not at my computer.  Sorry for the gap in my posts! While in Colorado I did a couple of fun wine events.  The first was for the Colorado Springs Excecutive Club. Jim Little and Peggy McKinlay of Coaltrain are members and every year they do some sort of tasting at the last meeting before Christmas.  I gave my very first speech in front of 150+ people! It was pretty easy though since my dad prepared a slide show of all the great photos you see on the site from harvest, vinification, pruning etc, and I just talked my way through them.  Since I'm so chatty, I ran over, but oh well, we had a great tasting even though it was 7:30 am! Also on hand at this event was Jason Huntley of Waters Winery in Walla Walla, Washington.  He is the founder of the winery and poured their 2004 Syrah which was mighty tasty!

The next evening after everyone dug out from the big blizzard Matt and I spent a few hours at Coaltrain greeting people who were interested in meeting us.  In all truth, it was mostly family friends that turned up, but there were a few very nice people who braved the weather and were truly excited to meet us and buy the wine.  While we were there, they even ran out! They saying that it was back in stock though, so don't worry there's still some available. hadn't received their deliver thanks to the snow. I got an email just the other day from someone

While visiting Matt's family in Minnesota, we also were invited to Matt's mom's neighbor's house to taste the wine with some of our biggest local fans; ie: the neighbors! We've gotten them hooked on the blog and now on the wine, maybe we'll even get them to come pick grapes with us next fall! So many thanks to the Doherty's and the Lawton's for supporting La Gramière!

There's lots of fun things coming up, so be sure to check back, I'll get back in the swing of things now...