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Notes From the
Vintner
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Welcome
to our column. We hope that you will return to
learn interesting notes on wine, and related
subjects. Wine is a great gift from God to be used
for the enjoyment of man. It is a food, and should
be treated as such. It is meant to lift up the body
and lighten the soul. 01/1/04
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May Our Good God
grant you a year of
favor…My
wish to you on this the start of 2004. Often we feel that
things are bad, and life is not going our way. But, these
are feeling, and not reality. When we encounter a sorrow, we
must get over it, and live life. Each one of us have far
more blessings than we have sorrow. It just takes a smart
person to see how good life is. Do not let others direct
your life, this is
your job, do it well.
The above
statements set the tone of where we are in our wine making
life. We all have worked hard crushing and fermentation of
the wine. It should be at rest in our cool storage place,
out of direct sunlight and air. I am sure that each of us
would like to change a step in how we made the wine. Maybe
we did not cut the fruit on time, or we let the wine on the
skins a day too long. Maybe we did not add the correct
amount of sugar, or racked the wine a week or two late. What
ever we did not do to suit us…let it go. This is in the
past, and we live in the present and future. So, let us
resolve to do a better job this year. If the wine was good
last year, then vint a great wine this year. We are not
getting any younger, so we need to get it correct as often
as we can.
It is easy to see
that the theme of these notes is to have direction, and not
allow sorrow and unhappiness cause us to lose faith in the
goodness of life, and the joy of a glass of good wine that
we have made.
Take the time to
go over last year in your mind, and check your records. Use
the Good and Bad of last year as guide for this year, and
you shall have a great year. Now,
that the mind is in a correct
state,
let's reward the body with a glass of our
wine..TO US
! ! !
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