A TIMELY BLOG – Part I, December 2009

It was pointed out to me that our monthly blog hadn’t been updated for quite some time, a year in fact, not since last April, picky, picky, picky. What confused everyone was the “Monthly News” heading on the webpage, which could mistakenly lead the reader to think that it is, 1) monthly, and 2) news, and up to this point, it’s been neither. There is an easy way out, we could change the heading to ‘Periodic News’, or ‘All The News That’s Fit To Print’, or ‘When We Have the Time News.’ That might do it, we could leave out Monthly or News or both, mmmm, we might need some help with all this, suggestions anyone?

But before your creative juices start flowing too freely, you should know, taking the easy way out doesn’t apply to how we do much of anything at Brian Arden Wines, not harvesting, sorting or handling our grapes; not how we work with the fruit during fermentations; do our punch-downs, do our rackings, design our labels, or market our wines. So the easy way out just won’t do, well, unless of course it’s an easier way to do something even better.

So let’s catch up and answer the question, what’s happened since April of 2009? The easy answer (low bar standard) would be everything; the 2009 harvest – wonderful; the 2009 wines currently aging in oak – fabulous; the released 2008 Zinfandel – absolutely delicious, and the 2009 Sauvignon Blanc – world class, as fine a Sauvignon Blanc as you can buy, and I’m throwing New Zealand imports into that mix.

The slightly harder answer to our news blog, now tentatively called “Stuff”, is going to follow in another blog. When we come back I’ll start on the real “NEWS” story of what Brian Arden Wines has been doing to bring truly distinctive wines of quality to you.

Arden Burt….