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The Latest from Karl Lawrence Cellars
We're nearing the end of the release season. Splits are running ahead of the rest of the bottles. So we will watch those more closely.
Michael, Elizabeth, Cheryl, and I had a great catered dinner at Bob and Stacey Bressler's last night. This was the result of Planned Parenthood's "Wine, Women, and Shoes" charity auction last year. So we hosted three other couples to beef wellington and a bunch of Karl Lawrence and Bressler wine. The consensus hits of the night were the Bressler 2001 and Karl Lawrence's 1997 Gary Morisoli Reserve. This event is coming up again this June 3.
I'll be gone next week. Jefferson and David Osborne will be around to take care of you.
Eric does the wine tank rail slide thing
When the cats away, the cellar rats will play. Michael often wonders what goes on when he's not around. I guess I'll have to come back next week and also face the same music.
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Monday, April 09, 2007
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For Easter we left the warmth of the Valley and headed up to the fog of Rancho La Jota for Elizabeth's annual Easter egg hunt.
Sophia helps Michael in his search for the "Golden Egg"
Neighbors Bob and Mariann Layne help deliver the Easter Bunny
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Many of you in the cooler areas received order forms with the warmer area due dates on them. Please don't worry about that March 30 date. The whole point of sending out Offering Letters in two waves was to spread the work and the shipping out and to try and concentrate shipping to warmer areas during their cooler time. So please, there's no need to contact me and ask if you can still order. Please just fax it on.
The other confusing thing that many of you are asking about is the customers who are considered Reserve customers and the Reserve list. Customers who have purchased directly from us for three years, receive a discounted price. The purpose of this is to encourage and reward long-term loyalty. The Reserve list is for customers who purchase the Reserve wines when they are produced and offered. Maybe we should change the name of Reserve customers to Revered.
Being a Reserve customer does not automatically qualify you for the Reserve List. You have to ask to be on that list. We learned from our relase of the 1997 Reserves when we offered wine to senioritied people who did not want it. So it made a logistical nightmare and unnecessarily stretched shipping into the Christmas shipping season. So if you want to get on the Reserve wait list, just ask. Being activated then, goes by seniority.
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Now for the fun news. What a great time was had by all at the Miami Wine and Food Festival. The golf tournament was stormed out. More than half the people went home. However, what was I to do. So I and a number of the other golfers stayed and slogged on thru it. We ended up having a great time. I did find out why the local college football team is call the Hurricanes.
You all know that we don't generally attend these events as we sell out at time of release. Therefore, these things just become an added expense. However, Bob Dickinson asked me to attend, AND, there was a golf tournament involved. Plus, I would get to see a bunch of people who I only know via emails.
Bob Dickinson reveals Ariel Solorzano's inner self.
The irascible Ned Valois and his understanding wife Patti.
Got a chance to spend more time with my long-time email buddy, Ned Valois. Many thanks, though, go to Patti for allowing Ned to come rescue me in the late evening from a roadside Holiday Inn and tool me around the Grove in his midnight blue Porsche. Life is good.
And in the small world of wine lovers, I made friends with Doug and Sue Gallagher. Ends up they live the summers in St. Helena and have a house right next the house that used to be occupied by Cheryl's former partner. They have a small winery that you'll want to get on their list. Check it out at www.sonadorcellars.com.
And in the small world of wine lovers, I made friends with Doug and Sue Gallagher. Ends up they live the summers in St. Helena and have a house right next the house that used to be occupied by Cheryl's former partner. They have a small winery that you'll want to get on their list. Check it out at www.sonadorcellars.com.
Doug, me, & Arthur
And to make matters even sweeter, Doug treated me to a golf tournament at his club, the Riviera Country club. We played in a tournament there and came in second. I faded in the stretch. That's the famed Biltmore Hotel in the background where Al Capone used to stay.
You'll all have to mark your calendars for next year (April 2-4), as this was a great event.
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You'll all have to mark your calendars for next year (April 2-4), as this was a great event.
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