LABOR DAY WEEKEND IN TENNESSEE

IT is the starting of Labor Day weekend here in the states and that marks the end of summer here. I went over to Ed Fryers neat wine shop in Hill Place next to Whole Foods today and talked to a lot of neat people who dropped in to get some wine. I was able to talk a good number of shoppers into trying a bottle of our Hawks Nest Orchard Block Red. Even with weather still hot and humid here I can smell fall in the air (almost!!!)

Soon it will cool off here and more wine drinkers will think of reds and hopefully Orchard Block. Do remember our wine as you consider a good wine to pair with fish, poultry, or of course lamb and red meats this fall. We are down to about only 40 more cases of our good 06 vintage so stop in today to your local wine store here in Nashville and get some good Orchard Block.

Many thanks to you who let me take your photos today in the Ed's store. As you can see as usual he insisted in getting in one of the photos. He is such a ham it is hard to keep him away from the front of the camera. Oh well , it is his store so I guess he should be allow to get in the shots occasionally. The three lovely ladies in the two first photos with me and then Ed are Whitney Ott, Sarah Manda, and Susan Manda who are all part of a soon to be bridal party--what a lovely threesome!!!!! Thanks for trying our wine--maybe think of a honeymoon in NZ and come work at our vineyard for a few days!!!!!!!

That handsome guy with less hair than me with two ladies on each side was one of "America's finest serving in Ramstein, German in the USAF. He was in there looking for good German RED wine-shows he knows more about German wines than me as I never even tasted any good German reds while living in Wiesbaden, Germany myself for three years from 73 to 76 back when I was delivering babies in the USAF myself. Fond memories!!!

So, all of you have a good long holiday weekend in Tenn and those of you reading this in NZ lets pray for an early dry spring. See you very soon!!!

More soon;

Dr Jim