The making of the wine is fairly straight forward but the selling is a full time job. Still have to discuss with wine makers on costs….so who knows. The woman who owns Silver Oaks recommended that we sell grapes the first few years…..same advise I got 2 weeks ago at a wine event. So….stay tuned. Of course the first year we will get between 25 and 50 cases (we hope) so most of that will go to friends and family and perhaps some wine competitions.
If we do make wine here are some thoughts on bottles/labels/corks.
Making wine – in previous posts you may have read that we are interviewing people to make or buy our grapes. Looks like they will come to Turtle Vines the end of June. Very excited to show off our work so far.
Bottles/corks/labels – below is a picture we saw of a turtle necklace. We are hoping to use this design for our label. In addition, we like the spray painted lables on bottles. Not traditional, but they look nice and you don’t have to worry about lables falling off. Lastly…..and certainly not traditional…..glass corks. I like the look of them and the wine will not get “corked”. Only issue is that the wine ages much slower as the air goes into the bottle about 10x slower than corks.
By the way….the picture above is from Sausalito where we sat the other night with a few glasses of wine after being in San Francisco.
