Delivered-To: scenic3015@gmail.comReceived: by 10.143.165.8 with SMTP id s8cs142077wfo; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:06:50 -0700 (PDT)Received: by 10.151.98.11 with SMTP id a11mr2769514ybm.132.1237565210082; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:06:50 -0700 (PDT)Return-Path: <SRS0=5vnpKz=7T=vintagenewworld.com=david.hance@friendlyskies.net>Received: from mailout05.yourhostingaccount.com (mailout05.yourhostingaccount.com [65.254.253.45]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 9si6154424gxk.41.2009.03.20.09.06.49; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:06:49 -0700 (PDT)Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of SRS0=5vnpKz=7T=vintagenewworld.com=david.hance@friendlyskies.net designates 65.254.253.45 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.254.253.45;Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of SRS0=5vnpKz=7T=vintagenewworld.com=david.hance@friendlyskies.net designates 65.254.253.45 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=SRS0=5vnpKz=7T=vintagenewworld.com=david.hance@friendlyskies.netReceived: from mailscan06.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.15.6] helo=mailscan06.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailout05.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1LkhFA-0003ph-Aj for scenic3015@gmail.com; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:48 -0400Received: from impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.13.103] helo=impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailscan06.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1LkhF5-0006H3-C7 for marcc@friendlyskies.net; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:43 -0400Received: from mail.andersonmiddleton.com ([67.131.15.131]) by impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com with NO UCE id VU6i1b02d2pfmez03U6iQ3; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:43 -0400X-EN-OrigIP: 67.131.15.131X-EN-IMPSID: VU6i1b02d2pfmez03U6iQ3X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5Content-class: urn:content-classes:messageMIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableSubject: Family Winemakers TastingsDate: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:06:27 -0700Message-ID: <2E76686B73B0C3449CB3505B6926F55D4AD795@am-srv.hq.andersonmiddleton.com>X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Family Winemakers TastingsThread-Index: Acmo7aqvupT3k2AIT8WssJiGY3ifOg==From: "David Hance" <david.hance@vintagenewworld.com>To: "Marc Carson" <marcc@friendlyskies.net>Clayhouse participated in the Family Winemakers of California tastingsin Southern California this year. We originally signed up for tablespace because our San Diego Sales Manager, Mark Plasch, was eager tohave us in the tastings. Mark left VNW for another job before thetasting dates, and we decided to go ahead and participate anyway. Partlybecause we had already spent several hundred dollars on table fees pertasting, and partly because we are still seeking account direct salesand a wholesale distributor in Southern California.Kari Kittinger poured Clayhouse wines at the new San Diego tasting atthe Del Mar Fairgrounds on Sunday, March 15. This was a long day, withtrade and media only for a couple of hours, followed by a three hourpublic tasting.=20Generally speaking, wine tastings run about three hours. So wewinery-pourer types get used to standing behind a table pouring andtalking for three hour shifts. I'm thrilled when I get that rare twohour tasting ... those tastings are over in a flash!=20Four hours starts to drag a bit. Five hours, and the occasional sixhours ... those are the events from hell. It is guaranteed that by thefinal hour or so you will have only those who've already imbibedinordinately trying to get you to pour some more. Kudos to Kari forpulling the long shift (or short straw?) without complaint.=20Family Winemakers of California was founded in 1991 as sort of arebellion against the California Wine Institute. But it addedpromotional tastings to its agenda, something Wine Institute doesn'toffer. There were 220 some-odd wineries at the San Diego tasting.The Pasadena tasting had more than 260 wineries. And it was for tradeand media only (which means trade, really ... why would media come tosuch a cattle call?). Tuesday, March 17, at the Pasadena ConventionCenter. DAH and his lovely wife, Christine, pouring for the broad rangeof wine trade in attendance.Who goes to these tastings? The trade tastings are free to "qualifiedmembers of the wine trade." That means you could be pouring tastes forthe clerk at the local 7-11 (yes, it does sell wine) or for the winebuyer for Trader Joes' (yes, all the stores, and, yes, he was there anddid taste Clayhouse).=20We pour tastes for waiters and restaurant owners, distributor sales repsand managers, major wine buyers and indy wine shop owners, sales repsfor other wineries, and the occasional winemaker. They're long days, butthey're interesting days, as you see who's interested in which wines.=20DAH is David Anthony Hance at www.VintageNewWorld.com andwww.DAHplaytime.com