It’s 2009! Looking back on 2008 at Michel-Schlumberger I realize how much has happened here during the
past year.
In the past year we’ve hosted guests here at the winery for luncheons and dinners on 20 different occassions.
We’ve participated in 3 different annual weekend long Russian River Wine Road Events (http://www.wineroad.com), during which we saw close to a thousand people each weekend!
We had our weekly Friday night courtyard music series on 20 Friday evenings between May and October.
We threw 3 wine release parties, 3 open houses, 2 Cellar Stash Sales, and 2 off-site winery events (a cruise and a hike/picnic).
These don’t include the various off-site tastings I and the rest of the MS Team poured at: Sonoma Showcase Weekend, Pick of the Vine, SF Chronicle Wine Tasting, Copia’s Winery of the Week series, Rhone Rangers and the list goes on….
…or the various national events our 2 vp’s of sales and winemaker have been part of around the country: Taste of Vail, the James Beard Dinner in NYC, Macarthur’s Annual California Barrel Tasting in DC, the Nantucket Wine Festival, Sonoma in the City (SF), and more.
What’s my point? We see a LOT of people, pour a LOT of wine, and spread a LOT of fun around. Our wine club members make up more than 1/2 of the folks at most of our winery events- that means they’ve caught on…….. With Michel-Schlumberger there’s never a dull moment. And there’s much, much more in store in 2009 — stay tuned!
