Here it is late October. Being mostly desert,
New Restaurants: 4
New Retail/Wine Bar
Outlets: 0
(480) 840-3131
(520)
299-4301
(480) 515-5000
The Farmhouse at Schnepf Farms
(480) 987-8398
The numbers
were grim last week. In Cave Creek we dropped 20 degrees over 2 days
putting us a few degrees over freezing point. Still all the animals
around us seem unconcerned, our horses are working on winter coats, rattle snakes are looking for a hole for the winter, a
family of tarantulas decided our garage was an ideal home (really), coyotes
continue to howl and only the owls seem to give a hoot. I’d like to make
the weather change an analogy for the economy which has also demonstrated an
ability to drop precipitously over a day or two. Most people are still
employed and most still eat or drink every day. I still can’t find a
parking spot near my favorite restaurants. Only the media are predicting
the end of life as we know it.
In this
economy it seems to me that our customers and suppliers are thinking about what
is best in the long term. They and we wish to maintain the hard won
relationships that are the basis for our business and to keep established
brands in front of consumers. On the supply side we have been buying
smaller quantities of wine and we appreciate the tolerance of the wineries that
we represent. We are also grateful to those suppliers who offered to
relax payment terms, if needed, to survive the current poor market. On
the sales side we try to ease our customers’ problems by volunteering to
deliver smaller quantities of wine. We do have a one case minimum, but we
do not charge if that case contains a variety of wines.
The Rambler
rambles on…
From
all of us at Orangewood Wines,
Richard
(newsletter writer) and Laurie (editor)
Orangewood
Wines