I hope everyone enjoys the Independance Day Festivities today!

If you plan a trip down to Steelville this weekend, the tasting room will be open for our normal hours (Friday 10-5pm, Saturday 10-6pm, and Sunday noon-5pm.)  Cheers!

Carol Says:
June 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

White wine, who knew? I’ll have to try it if I ever spill some red wine, usually it just gets drank at our house.

That’s right - white wine will take out red wine stains, according to Danene. I was glad to read that it worked for Jerry’s carpet too. Also, the product that takes out red wine stains is called ‘Wine Away’ and usually runs about $10 for a 12oz container. I’ll be carrying some soon, just in case you don’t want to waste any good Peaceful Bend white wine on taking out stains!

Carol, please email me your address and I’ll send you the four glasses on Monday.

Oh wait, after reading all the responses, I just have to give an honorable mention to Andy, who get the award for ‘most creative way to get rid of a stain’ :

Andy Says:
June 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

How about instead of getting the stain out you just buy 4 more bottles of Peaceful Bend wine, pour them into a bucket and soak the stained item in the wine until it is all the same color? How is that for a marketing idea

Andy wins a puppy.

Congratulations Carol, and thanks for playing everyone! Have a great weekend. Cheers!

You have until 11:50pm central time zone to enter.  Just click here to go directly to the blog post, and follow the directions to win this lovely set of wine glasses:

Good luck everyone!  Oh, and I’ll clean the one on the left before I send it. 

Cheers!

You still have plenty of time to enter yesterday’s contest. Click here for more details (or just scroll down). Be sure to have your answer posted in yesterday’s comment section by Friday, June 27 by 11:50pm central time.

But onto another project I’ve taken on….a youtube video! Oh boy, oh boy - this is my first time making a youtube video. It was pretty easy, although I didn’t realize how long it would take to upload to the youtube site. BUT it was definitely worth it, AND now I get to take you on virtual tours of the winery.

I’ve devoted a special page that you’ll find on the left called ‘Virtual Video Tours’. Just click on over there and you can view any of the videos I create of our place. I’ll also put up a post here with whatever newly-added video that I create. And please feel free to leave a comment on that page (or any post, or email me, or tell me while you are here visiting….) about what you would like to see a video of here at the winery. This is just the coolest thing! In my humble opinion anyways. I’m all excited about technology right now, in case you couldn’t tell!

So this first video is a tour of the guest cottage. Clyde has already made fun of my narrative on it, but hey, I gotta be me. At least we’re laughing together. Here is the video:

Thanks for taking a look! Now, go enter to win those wine glasses. Cheers!

That’s Danene Beedle, the Marketing Specialist for the Missouri Grape & Wine Program. This woman is awesome. She can organize 5 events, pour ten bottles of wine, and take out red wine stains from the carpet all at the same time. AND she never ‘talks smack’ about me, even when I probably deserve it. PLUS she’s gorgeous. Hey, wait, she’s so good I should hate her. Truth be told, she can only organize 3 events while she pours 10 bottles of wine.

But seriously, she does a great job promoting the wines in our state, and I was super excited yesterday to find out that she has her own blog. She is the Missouri Wine Girl. Ooooooooh, I love that title! Way better my recently dubbed title ‘Wife of Winery’. I can’t believe I missed the fact that she has a blog for so long….especially with a name like that. She has all kinds of information and observations about missouri wine, events, and life in general on her blog.

To celebrate her blog (belatedly!) I’m giving away some blog candy. You could be the lucky winner of four fabulous Peaceful Bend wine glasses (two white wine and two champagne glasses). To enter, just click on over to Danene’s blog, and find the answer to the following question:

What does Danene recommend using to take out a red wine stain?

Once you know the answer, come on back here and put the answer in the comments section for this post. The deadline to answer is Friday, June 27 at 11:50 pm Central time. I’ll put all the correct answers in a hat to draw a winner and then announce that winner on Saturday morning. That’s it! Easy peasy.

And if you’d like to share your stain remedies in the comment, feel free. I’ll add mine right now…..I got yucky charcoal-grill grease all over a pair of kakhi shorts the other day and got the whole mess out with Crisco. I just rubbed the Crisco on the greasy parts, let it set for a couple hours while I poured red wine all over a different pair of shorts, then tossed the greasy shorts in the washing machine and washed like normal. The grease came right out and you’d never know I was such a klutz by looking at the washed shorts. Good luck everyone!