The Accidental Winemaker
I never dreamed that I'd be a winemaker! Several years ago, we came to California with our small herd of horses to escape the Florida summers. While my wife was fully involved with the horses, I became interested in the vineyards around our ranch. Met some good people, got interested. And now, in 2020, we've bottled the first of grapes that I helped source and blend, wines that have my input with the assistance of master winemaker, Steve Clifton.
Hopefully, you will enjoy drinking these wines as much as I've enjoyed making them.
Kent Mitchell
Grateful
Today finds us in Texas, gathered with just a few family (about 70) to celebrate a year of thankfulness and blessings. We are missing those not with us any longer and those not with us today. We are happy that so many of you have decided to celebrate your own Thanksgivings with our wines and hope they are part of a wonderful day for you and yours.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
After surviving most of the Florida summer with a few beach and boat trips along the east coast, Kent headed out to Fiji to visit the s/v Blue Whale whom we haven't seen since 2019! Rona is joining in a few weeks for some diving and exploring the eastern Lau group of islands.
Our wines are winding down! Having moved permanently out of California, we're allowing the wine business to wind down as well as we move on to the next phase of our lives...which includes a LOT of east coast grandchildren. We've already sold out of a lot of our popular wines (Semi, Rose) and inventory is getting low on others. Although we did produce many bottles of our favorites, the GSM (Rona) and the Claret (Kent) so healthy inventories for those wines remain. They're frequently used in corporate gifting around the holidays so we expect those levels to be dropping as well.
It's been a great time, we've met lots of wonderful people, enjoyed some spectacular wines (we may have hoarded a few bottles of our favs) and are looking forward to the next chapter.
Where Does The Time Go?
How on earth did it get to be the end of February? Just yesterday we were gearing up for the holidays and now we are looking forward to spring and summer. For us, February was full of family; Rona's family came to Florida from PA and NY for some warmer weather while on Kent's side we got together with children and grandchildren in Utah for a week of skiing and, of course, something "equestrian", a sleigh ride.