We all had another great time at our Oyster Sunday this year! I never get tired of cookin’ them up for all our guests, especially those who’ve been a little chicken to ever try one. All I can say is you really need to see what a good barbequing can do to an oyster.
One of our special guests was Kay LaFleur. She brought along her friends Lee Anne and Sue from Minnesota and kindly emailed this photo of her and I, along with thanks for a fun afternoon. Thank you, Kay, for the photo! (Note to all of you readers: I love getting your photos!)
If you’re wondering who the older guy with the thick Swiss English accent was, his name is Paul Keller, a special guest from Switzerland. Besides being a good friend of our assistant winemaker, Markus Niggli, back home he is a wine steward, wine competition judge, and was even once the biggest Chateau Mouton Rothschild collector in Switzerland.
Pretty much immediately after his arrival in Lodi, Markus put him to work pouring our wines at ZinFest and Oyster Sunday. He said he thoroughly enjoyed describing his simple, but overwhelming passion for wine and travel over and over again to hundreds of people.
And if that weren’t enough, Paul also worked Monday and Tuesday at the winery, helping with filtration and moving barrels around. In the evening, we could see he was tired and looking forward to a glass of fine wine and a good steak. Afterwards he was perfectly content.
If Paul isn’t the perfect example of the expression “will work for wine,” I don’t know who would be!
Ciao!
Steve
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