| Monday July 9, 2001
I have to make this quick. I have to go up in the movie room to
see "Bring it On" again with the kids. I know you might think it is SAD
that I want to see this movie again, but I need a diversion.
Tuesday July 10, 2001
What a great movie. I know most of you would not agree with me. Please
do not hold it against me?
I got myself into big trouble in the last two
days. As some of you know I am a righteous SOB. I have a real gripe
with the bottles we have received from out present supplier. This supplier
mostly sells recycled glass including new bottles. But we buy new
bottles that they acquire from manufactures. The bottle in question comes
from a manufacture in Mexico.
This was a very disappointing day. This was the first day I have thought
that it may be a good thing some day, to give up and sleep for a very long
time . Don't worry I am far from that day and I am fighting more than ever.
I was treated like a lunatic today by the manufacturer. My language and
tone of voice prompted some of their actions, but I was right and they
were wrong and they do not want to admit it. I will explain more tomorrow.
Wednesday July 11, 2001
Most of you are big wine consumers. When you buy a bottle of wine you
want it to look normal. Wine bottles are made so that when 750 ML are put
into a bottle, the fill level is about 2.5 inches from the top. We use
a cork that is 1.75 inches which can expand to leave less than .75 inches
of space. The bottles I received from the manufacturer were too big. To
comply to BATF regulations the wine level would be 3 inches from the top
(750 ml). Just take a bottle and measure down 3 inches. Would you
buy this wine if the wine was at this level? If we used this bottle we
would have to put in a little over 5 ml additional wine to bring it up
to 2.5 inches. Sure, it would be nice for you to receive 755 ml instead
of 750.
As most of you know we sell most of our wine before it is bottled. Most
of the time we sell completely out of a wine before it is bottled. If we
had used these bottles we would have had to use more wine. For instance
if we had bottled all our Estate 2000 Zinfandel in these bottles, we would
have been short 5 cases of wine that we had already sold.
I need to continue this tomorrow. I've only had a few hrs sleep so I
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