I spent the better part of last week working in the Toronto market. Because the sale of wine and spirits is controlled by the Provincial government it is a very involved procedure. That said, Malcolm Cocks, our representative there, and I had a very productive sales effort over the four days we worked together. Lots of nice restaurant throughout the city as well as social clubs and country clubs that do a lot of business with both old world and new world wines. Similar to the US, Rhone wines are a fairly tough sell in Toronto while bourdeaux wines are in more demand.
While I was there Pam, Vidal and Scott harvested the first of our 09 vintage fruit. The Viognier we use in Prelude came off of Ken Riding’s new vineyard on Adelaide and it looks good. Today we will harvest the Rousanne, tomorrow a little more Viognier from Don and Barb’s vineyard and possibly some Grenache at the end of the week. Only another couple of months and we’ll be wrapping up the 09 season!!
Always lots of work to be done here at this time of the year so if any of you are in the area, give me a call and stop by.
