2019: Day 7 Today we celebrate our good friends Wilbert and Joka Borren, who you probably know as those “really nice people who own Four Shadows Winery”. We first met Wilbert and Joka about 3 and a half years ago, having rented their AirBnb cottage a few times. Like most people who travel to the … [Read more…]
2019: Day 6 Two years ago, we did a drink called “Mmmm! Peach! Mint!” It started off with a fantastic (but Photoshopped) headline that Trump had been impeached… and then Joel might have went into just a wee bit of a Trump rant. On Wednesday, the day finally came: the House of Representatives finally voted … [Read more…]
2019: Day 5 They say it takes 20,000 hours to become an expert in any given field. When you’re 18 with your whole life ahead of you, that’s no bid deal. That’s roughly 12 years working a regular day job. Most of us reading this know very well that it felt like a blink of … [Read more…]
2019: Day 4 We knew going into this winery adventure that it would take some time – years – to really get established. It’s definitely a business for those who are patient. When we began crunching numbers and setting goals earlier in the year, we felt pretty strongly that it was important to get up … [Read more…]
2019: Day 3 2019 was the year that climate change really became a hot topic – more so than any other year. This was thanks in large part to the efforts of a 16 year old activist from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, whose blunt, direct speaking manner caught the world’s attention. She organized Fridays off for … [Read more…]
2019: Day 2 One of the cool things about cycling, or any endurance sport for that matter, is that you pretty much get what you put into it. Put in the effort, the countless hours by yourself on a bike riding in the middle of nowhere, and you usually get rewarded on race day with … [Read more…]
2019: Day 1 2019 will undoubtedly go down as the craziest, most invigorating, stressful and dynamic, lose-too-much-sleep, but pop-out-of-bed year we’ve ever had. Of everything we’ve done, nothing symbolizes the year better than getting our Chain Reaction vineyard planted. First there was the preparation of the land (more on that through a different drink), then … [Read more…]