A few of our wine producers didn't make it but most got through ... somehow. Circuitous routes and unusual transports. I really liked the story of the Hungarian winemakers Eszter and Zoltan from Campanula (great pink fizz), who got in on the last plane from Budapest but didn't know how they were to get back. A Wine Club Member then comes to their Stand and says he just got back from Budapest in a hire car and would they like the keys to take it back? Great! And it worked! They did it. 24 hrs.
Carlos and Anna Bujanda turned up on time for work today having also hired a car and driven to Logrono.
Don't quite know how all the Aussie, Kiwis, South Africans and Chileans will manage ... But they will, somehow. Anyway a few days off in sunny England might be just the ticket after all that pouring and chatting.
Our customers sure do have a lot of questions to ask. I followed one couple round who kept asking everyone "Do you sell to Tesco?"
What was that about? And no..no, no, no. Our kind of Producers have no love for supermarkets of any nationality.
I was calculating that by now that little show has had 120,000 visitors over the years. And it's still pretty much a secret just known to Wine-Clubbers and those few Laithwaites customers who somehow found out.
But the new Laithwaites Show on 19th & 20th November in and all around our Vinopolis Arch and 5 neighbours is going to be quite something, it'll be THE Party of the Year!
On Saturday morning I went there to show Yves Gellie - our star photographer - round the place and he took this shot of me standing on the Tasting Table (which is VERY solid) looking unbearably smug.
I got some quite rude comments whilst up there.
Contrast it with this 40 year old shot of me in my original Arch36 in Windsor. Time does us no favours does it? But at least I seem to have cheered up a bit!
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