Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:13 PM
Subject: Orangewood Wines Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 6 - February
12th, 2007
The high
season is upon us - Barrett Jackson car auction, FBR Phoenix Open golf
tournament, Arabian Horse show, 10 feet of snow in New York, 70 degree weather,
are just some of the reasons that natives and visitors in Arizona are here and
in an optimistic wine buying mood. This is keeping us busy
New
Restaurants: 3
Wines from
California’s Historic Sierra Foothills - Event Feedback
Dick choreographed this second annual
event and kept the good things good (location, size, food, wines) and improved
some of the areas in need of improvement (ticket
distribution, auxiliary activities). We had most of our Sierra Foothills
wineries represented, and if you attended you know these are all fun
people. From my perspective I hung around and chatted with customers,
tasted some wine, munched some great food. This is a tough job.
Before the event Justin Boeger (Boeger Winery) demonstrated that he can squeeze
into the back of my ’94 Celica while I and Jim Gullett (Vino Noceto) enjoyed
the front. Not to be outdone, the next day Ryan Taylor (Mt Vernon
Winery), demonstrated that he can fit his 6’ 7”+ frame in there behind Laurie
and I. In addition to the event itself, we did some drive withs. Ryan and I were out on the Friday and were
held up by the Hashknife Pony Express as it reached
its destination in
We didn’t recruit any new sales people this month, nor did
we lose any, but we did make some adjustments. Szymon, who has been doing
an outstanding job got recruited to lead the local
distribution for a
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When someone visits a winery or is given a special bottle of
wine or reads about the wine in a magazine, they will often want to see if they
can buy the wine close to where they live. In today’s internet world it
takes but a moment to find the winery website and see if the wine is available
locally. For those not web savvy, they may instead ask their favorite
wine store to find the wine for them and most of them use the web as their
source of information. When the website does not answer the question,
it’s usually possible to call the winery directly, but it seems that rarely happens.
I did a survey to see which of the websites of the 30 wineries we represent
show whether their wine is distributed in
From
all of us at Orangewood Wines
Richard
(newsletter writer) and Audrey Graffeo (Laurie’s mom and guest editor)
Orangewood
Wines