Today we awake to sounds down the hill of kids playing soccer and church bell chimes from The Mission in San Rafael. It's crazy to think that our first Smith Story Wine Cellars harvest is coming to a close already. Tonight we pick our last 2 tons of Pinot Noir and we're still waiting on 4 tons of Sémillon to ripen way up on top of the Sonoma Mountain AVA.The past 2 weeks have been INCREDIBLE. Thank you and to each and everyone of our Backers who supported us on Kickstarter.com, we reached our goal of $25,000 on Labor Day. This is going to pay a nice chunk towards our grape-grower contracts! We were able to update the last few weeks with numerous photos here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/837539083/smith-story-wine-cellars/posts
We gained so much more than the Kickstarter amount, tons of new mailing list sign-ups and record breaking web traffic hits will help us to continue telling Our Story to the world. THANK YOU. Next...we are looking forward to finalizing smart financial partnerships to help with the enormous costs of our first year.
To be very honest, as fascinating and thrilling as the past few weeks have been for us, it's also been an uber stressful time for us. Why? We want the success of Smith Story Wine Cellers to happen more than ever before. It's all consuming. Thoughts of how the wines are going to taste, how we are going to sell them, who's going to write about them, how much do we want to produce next year...our thoughts are near manic. Thankfully, we have our day jobs to keep it all in check and mindfully put the brakes on the anxiety of building a business.
We have so much more to say, to update you about, to involve you with, but we are taking a few hours off this morning to enjoy a little piece of peace. Thanks for following...
This is Our Story,
Eric & Ali
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