Welcome to the CLC Blog. We hope to post once a week or so, focusing on current happenings here at the winery through the eyes of various people. For example, we start the 2007 harvest season next week, so our Director of Winemaking Stephen Tebb will post. My plan is to have our blog entries read like a diary—a snapshot, so to speak—about what is going on in that particular person’s world, that day.

 

I will start. As the VP of Sales and Marketing, my days are always different and very full. I am just getting back from maternity leave (my daughter Lila was born April 22) and catching up is tough. Lots to do. I am very thankful we have so many good people that work here. It is good to be back in the swing of things, although somewhat overwhelming at the moment.

 

Yesterday, I was at the Family Winemaker’s Tasting in San Francisco. I only went for a few hours, but the turn-out was good and people seemed pretty well-behaved. I have attended a lot of these huge tastings in my 8+ years here at Clos LaChance. Some are good, some are not so good. Others are complete drunk-fests (attendees get angry at me for only pouring a taste vs. a full glass of wine. LOVE those events). Family Winemakers does a good job with their event. They get the right people—i.e. the wine buyers—and they know how to control a large number of wineries (300+ I think) and attendees. It’s crazy, but worth the time. Yesterday, I had meetings with a couple of great accounts, one of them could mean big case sales. Would make the four hours round trip driving to San Francisco almost worth it…..gotta love Bay Area traffic. UGH. Anyways, keeping my fingers crossed!

 

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