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Welcome to Longevity Wine Club! |
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 On behalf of Longevity Wines I would like to welcome you to the “new” Longevity Wine Club. Or to be more precise, to Longevity Wines, Club. For those of you that are new, Welcome! And for those returning from our old format, Welcome Back! It has been a long journey to get here, and we have many exciting things to share with everyone. To get everyone caught up, we opened the winery to the public on July 13th of last year. We continued the old format of the club through December 2008. (The old format featured wines from other wineries in a different appellation each month).
During most of 2008, we were trying to get our own production facility and tasting room ready for the public, and the 2008 crush. We opened in July with five wines and quickly sold out of two of them. Since then we have bottled five more. Four of them will be featured in the new club. We will be shipping four times a year instead of twelve. The choices remain basically the same. Two whites, two reds, one of each or all four. We have added the choice of four reds, or four whites, you would receive two of each varietal featured that month. As a member you receive 20% off of our wines all the time, at any quantity. There will be exclusive events for club members only, and discounted events open to the public. Thank you for joining us as a club member. We hope you enjoy the journey as much as we do.
Sincerely,
Phil and Debra Long,
Founders Longevity Wines
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A lifestyle – A way of enjoying what you live, as well as living what you enjoy. A philosophy the Long Family has adopted to develop their wines and share the wines they have found with others.
Longevity Wines is about sharing this philosophy with all who enjoy wine. The quest for the perfect wine is not just about 100 points. It’s about where the wine was made. It’s about who made the wine by making the crucial decisions that will ultimately determine this wine’s personality.
But jost of all it’s about you and the experience you have while enjoying a good bottle of wine. Where you enjoyed it, what food you enjoyed it with, and what company you shared it with.
Ultimately, it’s about the experience. It is our quest not to just produce and sell wine but to live and share these experiences with others.
...It’s about Longevity. |
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Longevity Wine Club Visits Sonoma |
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Few districts have more of the character of old California than Sonoma County. Grapes and wine have been integral to its history. As early as 1812, Russian colonists planted and cultivated grapes at Ft. Ross on the Coast. But it was the Spanish Franciscan Fathers who laid the foundation for our wine industry in 1823 when Padre Jose Altimera planted several thousand grape vines at their northernmost mission, San Francisco Solano in Sonoma. In 1834, political upheaval brought an appropriation of all missions by the Mexican government. During this period of disarray, cuttings from the Sonoma Mission vineyards were carried throughout the northern California area to start new vineyards. By the time of the “Bear Flag Revolt” and the subsequent annexation of California by the United States in 1854, the vineyards of General Mariano Vallejo, the military Governor of Mexican California, were producing an annual income of $20,000. Other areas in the county were developing at this time: Rocky Mountain trapper Cyrus Alexander in northern Sonoma first planted grapes in what would become Alexander Valley; the county’s first “feminine vineyardist“, Senora Maria de Carrillo, had 2,000 vines in what would be Santa Rosa; Captain Nicholas Carrigan, probably the first American settler, had vineyards in the Valley of the Moon, and later in 1852, his neighbor William Hill, planted the first non-mission grapes in the county. |
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