In my introduction a few days ago I indicated what basically turned out to be an impatience problem which I have since tackled and defeated. Never mind that my way of defeating said impatience problem was to begin a few more batches of wine.
Now that I feel like I'm full bore into experimenting with and making wine, I've run into another problem I deem pretty significant. Since Uncle Sam signs my paycheck, I get the "opportunity" to uproot my family every few years for someplace thousands of miles away (last one was about 1850 miles). Obvious problems exist when it comes to experimenting with different wines and aging them.
My goals long term are to begin making wine for profit, but I still owe the taxpayers 8 years and 9 days, so for me, that time seems perfect for experimenting and developing my skills. In the mean time, though I need to figure out how to make my skills fairly portable. I've been in my current location for almost 18 months meaning that in another 12, I'll be vulnerable to move again. Likely, I'll end up here for another 24-30 months, though.
My excitement for wine-making has taken off over the last 2 years, and this fall I'm diving into my first wine from grapes as well as having several well intobulk aging. When the time comes to move, though, I don't want to have a large gap in my wine making. How would you all suggest handling this? Work like normal and just bottle when it came near moving day while giving many of the bottles away? Dump wine (oh the humanity!)? I'm trying to not have to start over when I get to where I'm going, but beyond just saving a few bottles of each, I'm coming up blank. All ideas are greatly appreciated!
And now aphoto ofbeautiful mountains to thankyou for reading this far.
Now that I feel like I'm full bore into experimenting with and making wine, I've run into another problem I deem pretty significant. Since Uncle Sam signs my paycheck, I get the "opportunity" to uproot my family every few years for someplace thousands of miles away (last one was about 1850 miles). Obvious problems exist when it comes to experimenting with different wines and aging them.
My goals long term are to begin making wine for profit, but I still owe the taxpayers 8 years and 9 days, so for me, that time seems perfect for experimenting and developing my skills. In the mean time, though I need to figure out how to make my skills fairly portable. I've been in my current location for almost 18 months meaning that in another 12, I'll be vulnerable to move again. Likely, I'll end up here for another 24-30 months, though.
My excitement for wine-making has taken off over the last 2 years, and this fall I'm diving into my first wine from grapes as well as having several well intobulk aging. When the time comes to move, though, I don't want to have a large gap in my wine making. How would you all suggest handling this? Work like normal and just bottle when it came near moving day while giving many of the bottles away? Dump wine (oh the humanity!)? I'm trying to not have to start over when I get to where I'm going, but beyond just saving a few bottles of each, I'm coming up blank. All ideas are greatly appreciated!
And now aphoto ofbeautiful mountains to thankyou for reading this far.
