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March 1, 2008

Open For Business

Today was the first official day Notaviva Vineyards opened for business! It actually came about quite suddenly, as we weren't planning on opening for another few months. But we recently left our positions at Viva so we figured let's just do it. This past Monday we were driving the back roads having our coffee, and I turned to Shannon and said, "you know, our greatest opportunity is sitting empty on weekends. Let's open this Sunday." To which she replied "Let's just do it Saturday!" And that was that.

So we jumped on the phone with Doug Fabbioli and asked how to make this work, ended up driving over to his place to discuss the details. In short we are operating under a remote license through Fabbioli Cellars until our TTB and ABC licenses come through, should be any time now given they tell people 60 days and our paperwork was submitted last October...

We feel like we've crossed the finish line, all the years of hard work and dedication really feel like they're starting to pay off. It was an amazing feeling, chatting with customers and seeing their faces looking around the tasting room. We sold almost a case of our Vivace Viognier on futures, even though people can't take the bottles away until we're official. Awesome.

So come on by and check out the tasting room, and enjoy a tasting of the Fabbioli wines. Saturdays and Sundays 12pm - 6pm.

Dreams do come true.

Posted by Stephen at March 1, 2008 8:48 PM