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Clan Notes - July 5, 2000 |
Greetings
from GlenLyon and GlenLyonWinery.com! Our website is (obviously) up
and running and we're as pleased with it as we are with our Syrah.
The folks at PlanetM.com did a great job. "Quite possibly, the
Best Website on the Planet!" Hopefully you have sound capability
on your computer so you can hear the bagpipes when the site comes
up. (Then again, maybe you DON'T want to hear bagpipes....) My PowerMac
and Suzy's iMac weren't configured for sound and PlanetMishelle had
to download some magic thing from somewhere in cyberspace to make
the sound work on our computers. Took about three days to download,
but it works! Anyway, if you don't hear the bagpipes playing, there
IS something you can do. (That's IF you want to hear bagpipes....)
For those of you who have ordered wine, you'll be pleased to know
that, as I'm typing this first "Clan Notes" edition, we're
waiting for the truck to ring down at the front gate to pick up our
first shipment for delivery. We spent many an hour these last few
days checking and rechecking your orders to ready your wine for today's
shipment. The GREAT news is that your wine IS on the way and should
arrive to you via DHL tomorrow. You could be drinking the "Best
Syrah on the Planet" as early as tomorrow night! (We may be miles
away from you but we'll most likely be joining you in a toast....)
We made it through yesterday's legal and illegal Fourth of July fireworks
unscathed. Fire during this time of year always worries us out here
where fire hydrants are far and few between. It was only a few years
ago that we all sadly watched the hillside vines of Carmenet Winery
going up in fire and flames. Heartwrenching. So much for the theory
that green vineyards make good fire protection....
This time of year the grapevines crave sun, but a pre-summer scorcher
in mid-June gave us much too much of a good thing. Three digit temperatures
may be nice for a trip to the beach but not so nice for the early-season
vineyards. Seems like almost everyone we talk to suffered some leaf
and fruit sunburn. Fortunately for us, we had not yet done any "leaf
pulling" around the delicate burgeoning grape clusters and we
didn't suffer as much damage as other vineyards in our area. We probably
lost a ton of fruit. (That's A LOT of bottles of Syrah....) Oh well.
'Tis the farming life. If it's not "shatter" due to an ill-timed
rainfall during flowering or flocks of grape-pecking starlings that
seem to appear from nowhere just three weeks prior to harvest, it's
news of some new grapevine-destroying Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter insect
or other. Anyway, the month finished off nicely and July temperatures
have been, if anything, a little below normal. Nice picnic weather
if we had time....
The delivery truck just arrived. Got to zip down to the winery and
get your wine off to you. Signing off for now.
Cheers!
Squire
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