Trip to Eastern Winery Exposition

We had not planned to go to the Eastern Winery Exposition being held this week but members of Vintage Nursery were there so at the last minute, we packed our bags and drove to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We felt that it was important for us to meet the people who have purchased Mercier, the nursery that originally took our vine order so that we are all on the same page for the shipment of our vines in a few weeks. We were only interested in attending the Trade Show portion of the meeting so we got up early on Wednesday morning and drove the 6 hours to Lancaster. It was a very fruitful meeting with Dustin and Dave from Vintage Nursery.

There are a few things that we needed to clarify and doing it face to face was the best thing. Dustin confirmed that they received our budwood (shippped on February 22, 2016) for the grafting of vines that we will receive next year. We also provided him with the number of vines that we are short this year. I think it is always a good thing when the opportunity presents itself to meet with people so that a face can be placed to a name.
Not only did we meed with Vintage, we also met with the people from Inland Desert, who will be shipping Auxerrois budwood to Vintage to fulfill next year's order. We spent more time with a few other venders and I'll report on those in upcoming blog post.