Monday:
Wake up at 6 am , drink tea and answer emails/do paperwork for 2 hours. Rush off to Burbank airport to catch a 9:30 flight to Oakland. Quickly pop into my favorite tea shop to buy some loose leaf Assam tea, because my mornings are sad without it.
Meet up with Carlo Huber and Paul Darcy at the Austria Uncorked wine show at Fort Mason. I represent Darcy & Huber Selections in California.
Lets be honest, Austrian wines rock for the most part.High acid, lower in alcohol, really food friendly wines. Talk with some wine trade buyers and share stories with some wine colleagues, chat with visiting Austrian winemakers, especially Rainer Christ of Weingut Christ and Alex Skoff from Weingut Zahel.
Both are very passionate winemakers who believe in organic grape farming and mostly use native yeasts as well. Their wines are stellar and reflect their good energies. This is the reason I started Amy Atwood Selections, to sell wines I love, made by people I respect.
Hop on a 6 pm flight back to Los Angeles, get home after 8 pm, send and answer more emails, make omelet and salad, take bath, sleep.
Tuesday:
Wake up a bit before 7 am, drink tea, do emails, print pricing sheets, find out my 2 pm appointment has canceled due to flu (dang, there goes my perfectly scheduled day). Race off to Burbank airport to pick up two Austrian winemakers and Carlo Huber. Full day of wine tasting appointments with the wine trade in Los Angeles. Along the way we meet up with winemaker Rainer Christ who flew into LAX instead of Burbank and later still we pick up Gerhard Lobner from Weingut Rotes Haus.
Last stop of the day is at Palate Food & Wine , where we finally slow down and pour some wines for a few wine lovers on the sunny back patio. A woman there tells me my life must be glamorous. Get home at 9 pm , eat cherries, answer emails, take bath, sleep.
Wednesday:
Wake up at 7 am , drink tea, answer emails, run and walk the hills of my neighborhood for an hour.
Put together new wine purchase orders for Savio Soares Selections and Darcy & Huber Selections. Calculate and add some new pricing to my Quickbooks and to my pricing portfolio for the wine trade. Email/call a few late paying restaurant/wine shop accounts about past due invoices (absolute least favorite part of my job, such a total drag). Go to bank and deposit checks from accounts that have paid (which is majority, yay!). Write checks for some wine producers and my delivery company. Call/email with Donkey & Goat Winery, La Clarine Farm, DomaineLA wine shop, Pourtal Wine Bar, Palate and Lou on Vine, all of whom are participating in the upcoming Natural Wine Week Los Angeles. Race across Los Angeles in peak after work traffic to celebrate a good friend's birthday. Another perk of the job, I can always bring delicious bottles of wine to every gathering.
Not sure about it being a glamorous life, but happy, yes.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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3 comments:
Hi Amy, I hope we are are one of the "white hats"!
-Stephen
Pourtal
Loved it! I hear ya, sister, loud and clear
Amy I feel you! It really isn't all that glamorous is it? It's damn hard work and long hours! Throw in three months a year of 7-day weeks, sleepless, cold & wet (when not hot & sweaty), and sticky with grape juice and welcome to my life. {sigh} What we have to go through to entice people to share our passion. And to pay their bills. Keep up the good fight.
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