Great honor for me. Dinner with Secretary Kathleen Sibelius.

May

After all the rain the vineyard is very luscious...now we are waiting for the sun...

Great time at Resta, lot of people coming to visit, am superbusy, all very nice, a lot of connections, the 2007 completely sold out, the 2008 ready to come out.

I met Alice Waters and this was very important for me, she is such an amazing person.
Inspiration for my cooking projects, and life in general.
Thank you to the Borgo Finocchieto, that gives me these wonderful opportunities.

This picture was taken as a project for a book, but will tell you more later...suprise surprise...

April

I just came back from our important annual wine fair in Verona, Vinitaly. Martino went very well, am so proud. There are new openings for markets: Austria, Germany, Canada and Switzerland. Now I have to send them samples, and wait for orders. Am referring to the 2008 vintage, that will be ready in a couple of weeks. The 2007 is completely sold out. Still can't figure it out how this happened. 4.000 bottles, gone.
Winebow INC. ordered more bottles, I will post soon the restaurants in the US that keep it.
Am posting a picture of the new baby vine growing, every day a little bit.
And one of the new presence in my cellar, a slavonian oak barrell. I don't use it for aging the wine, but I wanted to recuperate it from a winery that was going to throw it away. It looks very charming!

And one with Leonardo Locascio, President of Winebow.
Am starting to have some tastings here, am getting busy with planting flowers in the courtyard's pots, and tomorrow will decide on some t-shirts with Martino's name on. Why not?
A presto!
Anna Lisa