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Here at BOW, we sometimes like to write about what we're up to. This Blog page is our chance to report from the front line of wine making and we hope you like our silly little thoughts!
July 4th
Posted on: 4th July, 2009
I have the window open to a brisk and fragrant morning breeze off the vineyard. Sitting here listening to the beautiful Eva Cassidy's "Songbird". If you don't know her work, check her on itunes. A voice from heaven taken too soon.
So the 4th is here. Sharon and I have enjoyed many a hearty gathering on this day over the years. In the early 2000s I was running a nonprofit program training Japanese how to do business in the USofA. Each year we had a party on the 4th at our house in Arling....
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Of Travels and Family-
Posted on: 10th July, 2009
Well, the Rick-Meister-meister is off in France meeting barrel makers and quaffing fine cheap wines. Sharon looks a bit lost without her man Friday, but the work goes on in the basement as we prepare for 3 bottling days in rapid-fire succession at the end of the month. We look forward to the return of our friend on the 16th, refreshed and ready for the harvest!
Meanwhile the vineyard looks lovely from afar and challenged in some places up close. We've had a bit of powdery and black mildew ....
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A good evening...
Posted on: 17th July, 2009
I'm doing something that has rarely happened these past several weeks. I'm sitting at my desk writing on Thursday eve rather than Friday mornin'. That means I get to write as I enjoy a glass or two of fine wine.
I'm sipping Breaux Vineyards' 2008 Barrel Select Chardonnay. This is a nice wine . It didn't go thru malolactic, but its time in oak provides a pronounced butterscotch with lite smoke. Our friend Dave has made another very nice wine. If you haven't been, go to Breaux. You'll ....
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Of Sharks and Cows
Posted on: 25th July, 2009
While I write, there is a violent storm drenching the Northern Piedmont and the show is just outside my office winedow. It is 8:20pm and the sky rakes a brackish brown with muddy greenish hues. Leaves and branches blast past. The rain falls so thickly that I can only see about 200 feet, just beyond the house and the yard. The sound is a solid crashing and drenching and groaning and lightning cuts the miasma. Now and then. It's very much like scuba diving in murky waters with the awful thri....
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Our story...Part I
Posted on: 31st July, 2009
Sharon and I moved to the property on August 1st, 2006 from Arlington, VA. I grew up in Santa Cruz California, and Sharon in and around the town of Souderton, PA. We met at Georgetown in 1995 in a graduate program in international affairs. While it wasn't love at first sight because I'm a bit slow on the uptake, it was love at about 15th sight. A month after our engagement in 1999, we brought home our first beloved golden retriever, Bauregard S'notworth the Trouble (Bogart, who we lost to ly....
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- One Journey at a Time. My brother Ben and his wife Kathy travelled around the country this summer with their two kids, Genevieve and Sebastian. Kathy wrote a storyu of the trip and she has posted her photos and story of their visit to us. Enjoy!
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- A lovely online article about BOW in Tasting and Touring Magazine.
- A visitor's blog and photos about BOW from late May, 2009
- A story about BOW's grand opening from the May 8, 2008 Fauquier Times Democrat.
- Editorial in the Fauquier Times Democrat regarding Green Business as Good Business. The editorialist, Joe Gumino, a good friend of BOW, died unexpectedly soon after this editorial was published and we miss him dearly.
- Check out a great article on Barrel Oak Winery's successes in the first year. Thank you Bill Walsh at the Fauquier Times Democrat!
- Read about our green building in the Piedmont Virginian.
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