OND stands for October-November-December. It is our busiest season (usually about 40% of our business happens in the OND timeframe).

It is only the first day of October, and I can already feel the pressure of OND start to build. And in the midst of it all, harvest is in full swing and the grapes are steadily being brought in for processing.

A few snippets of things going on here at the winery:

-Paige is working with Dimitar and the bottling team to bottle and label up 9 different products, today. It takes about half an hour for EACH label change on the line. And this is if things go smoothly. She has also been on the phone with a client and label printer dealing with "issues."

-Kristin is dealing with a vineyard customer that is angry about not getting the fruit yields he was hoping for. No comment...just click here or here or here. 

-Melanie is working on closing a big corporate holiday gift program. Keep your fingers crossed.

-Cindy just ran Wine Club, so her phone hasn't stop ringing with people updating their credit cards, changing addresses, canceling (we hope not!).

-Colleen is dealing with our sales reps requests and trying to help them with computer issues. As well as developing the International channel for the brand. She's getting ready to go to India and Korea this year!

-Linda is plugging away at "retro-fitting" our accounting systems to be more streamlined.

-Cheryl is writing this blog entry, doing label approvals for the next vintages, running end of month and quarter reports, reviewing orders and depletions, filling out forms for potential National Account placements, writing sales materials, creating POS. And has her fingers in (or has at least heard about and expressed her sometimes wanted, sometimes unrequested opinion on) all of the above.

-Bill is playing golf with a customer today, left after the third hole to come back to the winery to help with the corporate presentation, then went back to playing. Should be on about 14-15 by now?  Tough work, but someone has got to do it (I need to learn to play golf).

-Not sure where Brenda is, but she's on email somewhere.

-Stephen and Ben are bring in grapes, grapes and more grapes. Stephen cut his hand pretty badly yesterday while giving a retailer a tour. He is doing one handed grape sorts today.

-Dominic is celebrating his Saturday today (since he works on the weekends).

I am sure there is a lot more, but I have got to get back to multi-tasking. Welcome to OND!