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The History Of Tamuzza Vineyards The Early Years . . . Continued |
| 1986
We produced 10,100 gallons of wine in our second year of operation. We bought more stainless steel tanks in which to age our wine, as well as 8 French Oak barrels. We used 5 barrels for white wines and 3 barrels for red wines. We also had our
first label designed. The firm that did our first label also designed our
logo and the way our winery name appears. The first labels were 4 color
labels on a very glossy paper. At the time they were very
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| 1987 |
| In the early winter of 1987, we bottled our
first wines. Richard and Judy of Poor Richard's winery helped us out with
those first days of bottling. Their winery was still to come.
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| 1988 |
| A new law permitted wineries to open a number
of outlets throughout the State of New Jersey. We opened our first outlet at
Old Lafayette Village in Sussex County.
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| 1989 |
| We had our largest harvest to date. From
our own vineyard we harvested 120 tons of grapes--over 20,000
gallons of wine. Following the harvest, we had record-setting rainfall in
the autumn. We also had a harsh and early winter, with temperatures that dropped to a low of
20 degrees below zero. Not only did we
have a hard time maintaining heat in my home and the winery but we lost a
lot of vines. The vines, which had been standing in water due to the wet fall,
succumbed to the
sudden and extreme cold snap.
My house, up the hill from the winery, was the basis for the drawing on our Chardonnay label :
More history to come...
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different from
other winery labels. As I recall we lined up 25 different wine bottles and
asked people which label "jumped" out or would they reach for first.
We
had a limited advertising budget and we thought that a very different
looking wine label would make a statement and help out in a big way.
At that time wineries were all using
lead foil capsules on their wines. We ordered 150,000 gold lead capsules.
After awhile I was so sick of seeing gold capsules on our wines, it
became another reason to sell wine . . . .
