Since I began writing this blog I’ve enjoyed passing on the stories of wineries that we’ve visited and the people that make the wine happen at those wineries. Although it’s great that we’re now permitting and shipping wine, one of the off-shoots of that is that we can no longer be quite as free with sharing stories about wineries that we visit, until we have purchased wine from them for our wine clubs and online wine store.

Most of the time you’ll hear about the wines and stories about people involved in the wineries after the wine has been delivered to our club members and the small amount of extra wine has either been re-ordered by those same club members, or the bottles have been placed for sale on our store.

In some rare cases where we find what we consider to be a perfect fit in so far as a winery is producing outstanding world class wine and they are the type of people we’d love to do business with over the long term, we’ll make sure we have an adequate supply for our clubs and the store moving forward.

One of these wineries that we consider such a partner is Stolpman Vineyards, based in Los Olivos, California.

We met with Peter Stolpman and had a very enjoyable afternoon with both a tasting session in their Los Olivos tasting room and an eventful trip to the vineyard which including taking a short time out from the (very serious lol) business of wine to do a little off-roading. You can see the brief video below, car makes and models have been left off to protect the innocent (ie warranty), but the ground cover had grown at least six inches higher then usual because of the unusually wet weather we’ve experienced of late in California.

I’ll fill in the details tomorrow with why we enjoy Stolpman so much as we have an affection for their wine and their socially conscious winery operations, but generally speaking this is how I expect the blog to be set up in the future.