BYO

ST MICHAEL'S, MD-April 27 Our winemaker dinner last night at the Shore Restaurant in the Harbor Inn attracted a nice crowd, 70 people total, many of them telling us they had enjoyed our wines during the day at the St. Michael's festival. Needless to say, the courses were all wonderful...what a treat. I think we have won over a lot of wine drinkers to our wines over the last few days.

We did see something unusual at the dinner. At one of the tables, a diner brought his own wines to have with the meal. During all the years we have been doing wine dinners, this is the first time we've ever encountered that. He is apparently known for doing this, so we were warned about it before hand.

Yesterday, it was very warm and humid so it was something of a shock to wake up to cold, windy weather this morning. I guess the bad weather finally caught up to us. I had to dig down in my luggage for my "Chicago weather" clothes. We were never warm the entire day. It didn't stop people from coming to the event, however. The pace of the day was a little slower today so I was able to sit in on a few of the chef demonstrations. I do have to admit that we were all glad to see the end of the final day of the festival....five hour tastings can be very long. But the event was definitely worth it as we sold out of almost all of our wines that were available in the festival store run by Town and Country Liquors here.