Business Update: Compliance and Licensing Progress

You have spoken, and we’ve set the date for June 3rd at 5:30pm PDT/7:30 PM CDT/ 8:30 PM EDT for our first Patron live Q&A! We’ll keep this pretty informal. Diana will chat a bit about how fermentation works, but our main interest is answering *your* wine questions. So, if you’ve got something that’s on…

Frank kayaked 40 minutes out from the main beach at Onetangi to take in the scenery and get allllll this trash (or as they say here, rubbish). Out-of-the-way beaches always have tons of stuff washed up on their shores because they aren’t visited very often. So whenever we go, we try to grab as much…

Diana finished vintage this week, but was wonderfully exhausted by the experience 🥰😴🥰 Frank has been busy with work work and getting Diana ready for her next #winenerd challenge: WSET Level 3. So…..we haven’t posted an update in awhile. But! We have lots of info to share with you all and will do so next…

We started the application process for our alcohol license back in February thinking it would only take a couple of months, based on our in-depth research and conversations.  Turns out, that wasn’t quite the way things worked out.  Despite not owning a winery or planning to sell our wine through a physical tasting room, we…

Whoohoo!! We’ve hit another milestone and inked a contract with winery in Hawke’s Bay. That way the fruit won’t have to travel far, which is better for the grapes, better for the yeast, and better for the planet.  The winemaking facility has everything we could ever want from a winemaking perspective, an on-site lab, and…

Gatekeepers, capital expenses, and stubborn conventions of “what is a winemaker?”  Digging into why the classic winemaker image of a man drinking wine in front of a vineyard is unrealistic, unattainable, and an image that needs to be modernized to fit what winemakers actually look like today. Diana’s pretty passionate about this and we will…