2020 in Pictures

Let’s face it: 2020 wasn’t great. For lots of reasons. However, we maintained our optimism because any decent grape-growing winemaker knows, you have to keep your optimism as full as your wine glass!

To Summarize

• Officially got into our first restaurants (Vera Cruz Sr and Vera Cruz Jr) early in the year. This this marked the last time we went to a restaurant for about 8 months.

• Pruned, planted, and built some more trellises

• Re-hauled our website to adapt to the times and allow for curbside pickup and local delivery, both of which will always be available now, year-round and every day

• We “opened” by serving wine out of the window, an experience as unenjoyable to us as it was to our customers. But everyone needed wine and where there’s a will there’s a way! Take that, covid

• Built a glorious pavilion, just in time to be able to celebrated America in July and our 5 year anniversary in September (as safely as we could)

• Finished filming with PBS for a future episode of “Making”. Production has been delayed due to covid, because in case anyone has forgotten, covid is just the worst

• Harvested over 10,000lbs of grapes and made wine with the ones that Samuel didn’t eat

• Made it to the finish line.

Here’s to being hopeful for 2021 being different. Cheers!