One of my favorite sayings comes in the form of a Chinese blessing: "May you live in interesting times." Some people might--with a perspective of the past year--consider this more of a curse, and I think we could have a peaceable discussion about the merits of both ways of interpreting the saying.
In either case, things are strange, and we've all had to adapt in one way or another. One of the changes I've reluctantly agreed to is to shine a little more light on our Cadenza Vineyards label. Since the release of the first vintages back in 2018, I've kept a pretty tight control of these wines. We didn't have that many to begin with, and subsequently we did not open the Cadenza wine club up to more than about 100 memberships.
This was a very prudent thing to have done, since our 2017 was pretty small and the 2018 was virtually non-existent (only two white wines and no red wines made the cut to be called Cadenza.) In 2019 we had another small harvest, but we were blessed in 2020 with a much larger one. Perhaps this is the best news we've had in 2020!
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have noticed a slight drop in our membership along with some folks skipping a shipment or two. I totally understand this. Wine is a luxury product, and these are uncertain times.
Because we have been unable to do our traditional tastings--sharing wines and conversation with guests--our opportunities to have the wine club grow have been few and far between. To that end, we decided that it would be a good idea to at least place the Cadenza wines in the tasting room so that we can start a conversation about them. I resisted this from the beginning, but I feel that it's the right thing to do.
We will be opening the tasting room up for bottles sales soon, and when you're in there next picking up some bottles, please look on the wall to your left and ask about the bottles with the "C" on them. Our staff will be happy to tell you the Cadenza story and talk to you about the wine club. You can also purchase these bottles to take home today if you'd like. (Cadenza wine club members get special pricing, of course.)
Keep an eye out for next month's release of our first Cadenza Albarino as well!
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