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Sleepy Butterflies
The overwintering monarch butterflies in Santa Cruz in December 2009 and the birth of beautiful Madison Rose to friends in January 2010 provided the inspiration for the music.
Good News for Georgia Residents
According to this AJC article, Georgia residents will be able to purchase wine online starting on July 1.
While my favorite California wineries, including Pedroncelli and Sausal, haven’t yet updated their web sites to reflect this change, I am sure that they will work with Georgia residents to fill orders under the new law as soon as it goes into effect.
Cheers!
A “field trip” with my father and grandfather.
Since I didn’t write about it when it happened, this seems appropriate to write about on Father’s Day. About a month ago, I was in California to celebrate Dad’s 70th birthday with him.
While I was there, I had the opportunity to go with my father, grandfather, and step grandmother (Ed, Angelo “Kelly”, and Inez Micheli) to visit the spot where my father was born. I had been there before, but I don’t know the site well, and, possibly because all of my recent visits were on wine-tasting trips (not a good time for family stories, or at least not a good time to retain them), I really didn’t know much about the place.
However, on this occasion, we were there because the vineyard manager for Bella Vineyards and Wine Caves, John Clendenen of Clendenen Vineyard Management, had some questions about a vineyard, and Gramps, together with his father (Adamo Micheli), had cleared that land and planted those 85-year-old vines! (Gramps is 95; here’s a video.) I had no idea! I didn’t know grape vines lived that long!
Adamo and Angelo Micheli cleared and planted the lower vineyard on this hill. The grapes are zinfandel. The caves are a recent addition.
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Gramps Picks Up the Spare
My first attempt at creating a video.
A few of Great Aunt Gilda’s 15 minutes of fame.
She actually probably has a lot more minutes of fame than 15. Anyway, her latest press is here.
In case you’d rather not bother, the newspaper article is about Aunt Gilda, who used to work at a locally owned pharmacy at the cosmetics counter, helping men pick out gifts for their wives for Valentine’s Day, because she knew what perfumes and such the wives liked.
