Maybe it is hazardous to call it spring, but, since we are almost in the middle of March, I think that we deserve some nice climate, sun, and moderate heat, am I wrong? It seems like winter was neverending.
Work is slow, but I am not worried, because it is always slow in this time of the year.
I have some good contacts, and think positive. Some clients of mine are coming back in May for a week, running away from the US they say, because there is too much pressure from economical depression. Maybe this will be a tendency.
Next Saturday I have a couple to tour around, we will come here, then to Monte Oliveto Maggiore, have lunch in Chiusure and visit Altesino in the afternoon.
Martino will be bottled next week, and 60 bottles were already ordered by Adler Spa hotel.
This was a big news! Hope they don't change their mind!
I want to share this article from a national newspaper by Tommaso Farina with you, appeared yesterday (I approve it all):
Let's toast! The consuption of wine in Italy increased of 7%. Not just this: with 45 milions of hectoliters we produced in 2008 more than France, our historical rival. And the quality wine part (60% of all of it) grew. Now that people don't have much money, they want to drink well. "We don't give up the quality of life. Maybe we don't buy a new jacket, but wine on the table is never missing. The table is a moment of sharing. We always tend to quality, and with the crisis even more. In the last years people started to enjoy to drink well, and don't want to give that habit up. Of course there is a slow in the sales, but more people now go to buy directly at the vineyard, to save money, and there, between a low-wine and one medium-high, they prefere the best one. Without doubts, the best wines are the ones that managed to face the crisis walking tall. When there is a crisis, it is normal to find the way to spend in the best way our money".
