Vintage 2024: It's February

It is already February! In last month's Vintage Notes I wrote about the wet January that we were having and the records show that January in Connecticut was the third highest rainfall totals recorded.

The rainy weather gave us a chance to catch up on our business. To be honest, the most time consuming part of trying to get our business off the ground has been complying with the requirements for our label. My husband followed the instructions for getting label approval also called Certificate of Label Approvals (COLAs).
During the first submission of our label, the reviewer objected to the front of our label containing the words "Old Mystic, CT" because Old Mystic is not a viticultural area. We had our graphic designer remove that and resubmitted. The second reviewer objected to the back label containing the information "bottled at Jonathan Edwards Winery" so we changed it to "bottled by Jonathan Edwards Winery". Then it turned out that we could not put the word "estate" on our back label even though the grapes were grown at our vineyard. More iterations with our graphic artist. Finally, when we thought that we had everything in compliance, we were informed that we could not get our own COLA because the wine was bottle by Jonathan Edwards and the COLA for the label must be through Jonathan Edwards Winery.
Fortunately, Jon has a wonderful person, Susan working with him and Susan helped us to get all of the COLAs we needed for our wine labels!
Our journey continues!
Back to the weather: Around 10:30, the sun came out! It is such a strange feeling. For the next 10 days the temperatures will be in the high 30s and low 40s. I am just crossing my fingers that we will not see a temperature plunge such as we experienced last year.