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New

 New. New Year, new wine, what's new pussycat? A great deal of importance is placed on "new". Once the calendar flips, or perhaps more accurately gets replaced by a new one, there is a visible roadmap for the coming year, and into that year is poured the known events and the plans that will make it up, a strategic approach to hopefully make life more efficient. We know, within generic parameters, when pruning will begin, when bud swell and growth, verasion, picking and crushing will (hopefully) begin. As it has in the past. Each year began as the new kid on the block, but time marches on and each is replaced by a successor, yet in the wine world especially, there is much reflection on each individually contained year, as each is a story placed in a 375 or 750 ML time capsule. Each vintage (a word likely derived from grape collection) tells a story, of a particular time, when conditions were as they had been, except completely differently, the year when it would. not. stop. raining, or the year when there was no precipitation to be found, the year that the cold hung on until April, or didn't show up until that one night in May that devastated a vineyard. The year that birds were bad, or the insects, or the deer, or the year they all teamed up, or agreed to stay away. Each is unique, unless it isn't, like that one time....

 Wine-making forces you to live in the past almost as often as the present, and the "new" is only the older from two years from now. Wines you like now may develop into other forms, a complexity that is always changing, evolving into something else, subject to exterior analysis into its worth. This is the bargain: we'll make, and hopefully you'll enjoy, and the wine will change, and so will you and so will we. And we, all of us, will do it until we won't. It's January, it's a new year. Here we go again.

2015 Horticultural Congress & Trade Show

Starting on January 20th, and running through January 22nd, the

Indiana Hort Congress is taking place in Indianapolis, at the Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel. It's an educational event that was created "to address the needs of fruit, vegetable, wine, organics, and specialty crop growers and marketers in Indiana and surrounding states", a trade show with equipment vendors and a gathering of people involved with or interested in agriculture. Anyone who might have questions or might be looking for information is encouraged to click on this link or

call (765) 494-1296 for more information. It only happens once a year, a few weeks from now, and could be a great resource for the right person.