Noir and 2001 Estate Riesling very soon.  The Estate Pinot Noir will be priced at $15.95 and the Estate Riesling will be $15.75.  Both are limited, and if you have not already reserved some, but would like to, just let us know.  We will also be releasing roughly the last ninety bottles of the Apple Dessert wine on October 12^th (Applefest Saturday).  Half of these have already been reserved.  Please call if you are interested.

Of course, we still have other wines available for now or the holidays, including our gold medal winning 2001 Baco Noir.  We will again be offering the customized Holiday labeled wine for the holidays with orders due by November 15^th.  Please call if you'd like an order form faxed to you. 

AND THE (FREE) PUBLICITY CONTINUES

The current editions of both Vermont Life and Yankee magazine have very nice pieces on us.  Regarding the family photo (which spans two pages) in Yankee magazine, I was very much relieved that the editors of Yankee magazine chose not to place the page staple through my stomach lest I take the hint that I should have a tummy tuck.  We were also written up in the July 4^th edition of USA Today and New York PBS came up and filmed a segment about us on September 5^th (to be aired in November or December).

OTHER QUICK UPDATES BEFORE I LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR A COUPLE MORE MONTHS
Our outdoor summer concert series ended on a wet, but successful note.  And while it poured on the last concert, we still had more people (the majority dancing while sporting the latest in plastic trash bags) than at a Montreal Expos game.

Much to the disappointment of some, we decided to hold off on starting our French style Farmer's market until next year.  We just didn't have enough time to pull off the first class type of market that I saw in France (I didn't have enough time to recruit a lot of people who would like to argue with each other).  So, this will be my winter project, and I hope that we will start the broad spectrum market that I envision next August.

So, what's up for our annual Nouveau release?  Well, as you may recall, last year was both a success and a failure.  We had a sell-out crowd of one hundred people at the Highgate Manor for the Nouveau release dinner (which was a success).  But prior to dinner, we attempted  to answer to the question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" (which failed).  The answer was supposed to be "To deliver the Nouveau", but when we placed the small bottle of wine around the chicken's neck, it, well, sort of weighed her down.  I could use a bad pun and say that she simply choked under  pressure, but PETA might actually take it seriously.  No, the chicken survived the ordeal unscathed, (but was delicious later).  Anyway, this year the Highgate Manor is

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