Believe it or not, 2009 marked our 5th year participating in ZAP’s Zinfest.  A few of our favorite memories:

Best question (from ZAP ’07):
“So where exactly are you in relation to the nearest Red Lobster?”
Answer:  The nearest Red Lobster to both the crush facility we use in Santa Rosa and our home office in Kenwood happens to be in Rohnert Park.  That’s 10.4 miles away from the winery (approximate travel time of 13 minutes), and 17.9 miles away from our home office (approximate travel time of 30 minutes).

Best use of complimentary baguette (from ZAP ’05):
Cell phone casing.  The handiwork of a young woman who strolled around the place loudly gabbing away on her bread phone.

Best mistranslation of our winery name (also ZAP ’05):
Soul Juice.  By a famous winery owner no less.  We’d use his name here but he’d probably sue us as he’s well known to be a frequent practitioner of the petty lawsuit.  Someday we’re going to get all famous and sue him just for fun.

Best overheard interaction from neighboring winery table (ZAP ’08):
A confidently tipsy woman walked up to the bearded winemaker next to us demanding to know “What’s with the Grizzly Adams beard?”  He simply stared at her without making a move to fill her glass until she said, “You’re not going to pour that for me, are you?” He shook his head, she walked away.

Oddest ZAP story from a good friend of ours (ZAP ’04):
When she casually mentioned how she somehow managed to lose both her sunglasses and her safety glasses.  Safety glasses?  We had no idea which follow-up question to ask first with that one.

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