Fabbioli Cellars

Dear Friends,

What’s Up on the Fabbioli Front

As always, we are adding new people to the email list. To those new people, welcome to the family. Before you delete yourself from the list, try and read a few of the updates. The approach of these notes tends to be somewhere between brief, informative note, marketing, wine industry insider education and some crazy peeks inside Doug’s head. Ride it out and give me feedback.

Next Open House: After wrestling with the weather in February, we have decided to try again for March. We will have an Open House on March 24th from noon until 5pm. This will have some light fare and family fun. I am hoping things will be a little warmer and drier than previous days that we tried to do this.

Frannie, this is for you: Also, we will be open on March 17 for any St. Patrick’s Day visitors. We have missed a lot of people due to scheduling issues and weather. This may not have the fanfare of an Open House, but as I learned recently, these smaller tastings can be pretty fun and effective. We are looking forward to seeing you folks at either of these.

Green Friday: The day after Thanksgiving has traditionally been a day owned by the shopping malls of America. Those of us in the rural economy are trying to help consumers think beyond that. We are planning to set up a market/faire in downtown Leesburg to have local products available to shoppers for gifts along with an educational aspect of how those dollars that stay local effect the environment and businesses around you. This idea is just starting to flesh out and of course I am pretty involved in it. You will be kept up to date.

Opportunities to Help: If you have seen the calendar for Fabbioli Cellars, you can see we have been and are going to be pretty busy. We have had and continue to have some great help. Cara, Ben, Vicki, Larry, Janet, JB, Rich, Meredith, Maureen, Jenny, Dennis and so many others have been key to making this work. My next thing to do is to start organizing a few more for tasting opportunities, along with harvest and other things. This is not an open casting call, but if you have some time, flexibility, and are looking to work hard, let me know. We can talk further. I know I cannot do it all, but that does not keep me from trying. Thanks.

Calendar for Fabbioli Cellars