Futures
I have learned an important lesson. I am not built for stacking firewood anymore. Maybe a few years ago I could make that claim. OK, 10 years ago. It's rather heartbreaking. Chopping and stacking wood is one of those archetypical tasks that defines healthy manhood. William Shatner chopped wood in that last Star Trek movie he was in!
Saturday night, standing on the crush pad at Carlton Winemaker's Studio shortly after stacking a cord of fir in the barn, my back began to inform me that any healthy manhood I might have possesed had left the building sometime in the late 90's and it hadn't quite made up its mind how it was going to make me pay for making it work so hard but when it did, I was going to hurt.
Normally, after doing hard, physical labor, I'd take a shower, pour a nice glass of unoaked chardonnay and fool my body into thinking everything was ok. Saturday I had to pick up a case of pinot futures we had bought last February. Futures, for those of you who don't keep a stack of Wine Spectators in the bathroom, is essentially, buying your wine before it's in the bottle. There's a short list of why you might want to do this.
My back is doing a bit better now. The benefit of having a desk job during the week is I can heal up from the weekend.
cheers,
Saturday night, standing on the crush pad at Carlton Winemaker's Studio shortly after stacking a cord of fir in the barn, my back began to inform me that any healthy manhood I might have possesed had left the building sometime in the late 90's and it hadn't quite made up its mind how it was going to make me pay for making it work so hard but when it did, I was going to hurt.
Normally, after doing hard, physical labor, I'd take a shower, pour a nice glass of unoaked chardonnay and fool my body into thinking everything was ok. Saturday I had to pick up a case of pinot futures we had bought last February. Futures, for those of you who don't keep a stack of Wine Spectators in the bathroom, is essentially, buying your wine before it's in the bottle. There's a short list of why you might want to do this.
- You really, really love this wine and very little of it will be made so you want to get your share.
- You're in a room full of people described by #1 and you don't want to look clueless.
- Your friends made the wine, you like their wine and you want to demonstrate how much you like their wine thereby creating a panic among others so they'll jump in and buy all the wine they make creating....
- A cult wine that some overcapitalized soul will pay thousands of dollars for at auction assuring the success of your friend's winery and justifying the opinions of certain people living in caves in Afghanistan that Americans are decadent.
My back is doing a bit better now. The benefit of having a desk job during the week is I can heal up from the weekend.
cheers,
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