Wednesday, December 05, 2007
A Michigan Winemaker No More...
For those avid readers of this blog, you may wonder why my postings mysteriously stopped in January, 2007. No, I wasn't buried under a collapsing stack of wine barrels. More simply, the struggling Michigan economy caught up to me and I lost my day job when Pfizer cravenly shut down its Ann Arbor research site. I neglected my wine postings while searching for a job. After a rather short job hunt and preparing my house for sale, I closed up Hidden Lake Estates and moved further east to take a job with an up-and-coming biotech company in Boston, MA (think country kid moves to the big city). If I get time, I'll regale you with stories of the moves (yes, it took two trips to get everything here).
I will sorely miss exploring the wineries of Michigan. I've enjoyed many an hour tastin' and samplin', as well as a good deal of time pickin' and bottlin'. However, after a long hiatus, I plan on morphing this blog from a review of wine and wineries in Michigan and surrounding states into a review on wine and wineries all along the East Coast and Midwest and my own winemaking adventures.
After three months in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment in the heart of Cambridge, my wife and I recently moved into our new house in the suburbs. One of our primary house must-haves was a basement for winemaking and wine storage. Our new house fits the bill and I'm itching to ferment something. Yeah, I'm probably a little psychotic, but it's been 12 months! I'm not quite at the withdrawal stage, but I'm getting close! Since we're in the middle of the Holiday Season, I'm initially planning on taking advantage of a native Massachusetts fruit--the cranberry. Then, on to some Chilean grapes in the spring!! But first, I must get my carboys unpacked!
Stay tuned...
A Wine Student
I will sorely miss exploring the wineries of Michigan. I've enjoyed many an hour tastin' and samplin', as well as a good deal of time pickin' and bottlin'. However, after a long hiatus, I plan on morphing this blog from a review of wine and wineries in Michigan and surrounding states into a review on wine and wineries all along the East Coast and Midwest and my own winemaking adventures.
After three months in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment in the heart of Cambridge, my wife and I recently moved into our new house in the suburbs. One of our primary house must-haves was a basement for winemaking and wine storage. Our new house fits the bill and I'm itching to ferment something. Yeah, I'm probably a little psychotic, but it's been 12 months! I'm not quite at the withdrawal stage, but I'm getting close! Since we're in the middle of the Holiday Season, I'm initially planning on taking advantage of a native Massachusetts fruit--the cranberry. Then, on to some Chilean grapes in the spring!! But first, I must get my carboys unpacked!
Stay tuned...
A Wine Student
