Swells

Being a "Swell" or being a member of the "swells" was once applied to folks of the gentry set - you know - inherited wealth, 9am risers, white slacks, Gatsby.  There are other types of swells as well and they are small "s" swells. Christian Wölffer of the Vineyard is a swell but one who is a swell by "adjective" (remember adjectives modify nouns??) and a swell person by hard work; a swell person by all accounts and we are pleased to have the Vineyards wines for our tasting today. In this and many cases, being a lower case "swell" is highly preferable.

That is very true of so many of the vineyards in the area.  Persons with grit and nerve making a go of it when the old return on investment (ROI) is somewhere past over the rainbow and the end of the earth.  That takes the "long view" and we admire that.  It can't be easy.  So if Christian here in the photograph appears smiling in the kitchen, well all our swell friends with vision smile in the kitchen.

Enough of the platitudes for our vineyard owners. We are just glad to have Wölffer Vineyards in our shop for the tasting. Today, 3-6pm.  Good for him. Good for us.

We are in the rhythm now. Shoes on. Ready to dance. See ya' later.