New Winery Blog: Flying Trout Winery

The Flying Trout Winery Blog has just appeared in one of my regular Technorati search feeds (a very handy way to automatically keep track of what's going on in the blog world on topics, like winery blog, of interest).

The blog's author is unclear - although at least one post appears to be the product of Claudia Maldonado Cuevas, the assistant winemaker at Flying Trout (apparently named for winemaker Ashley Trout).  Here's a great quote from one of the bloggers:

Winemaking Aspects of Owning a Winery are for the most part, non-existent.  If you want to make wine, be a cellar rat.  If you want to own a winery, be prepared to drywall. 

My first recommendation for this blog is to switch to a standard piece of blogging software (like Typepad), or get a better Wordpress template.  The blog layout is just a mess.  For example, the color choice and typeface make it hard to read, and no easy way to move forward/backward from an individual post.

But given the writing (only 4 posts thus far), I think there's a story in here somewhere.  I look forward to reading it.  As always, we've added them to our list of winery blogs.

Comments

[Ashley Trout]

Thanks so much for your support on the blog site.

I have spoken with the FTW computer programer and we are going to try to make the text and font clearer on the blog.

I, Ashley Trout, am the one that writes all of the posts. If you have any more suggestions, I am all ears.

Thanks,
Ashley and the FTW

[Joseph Hasler]

There is not enough space to speak at length of the proficiency of Ashley as a winemaker, and the excellance of Flying Trout Wine. Thus, to be brief, I will refrain from that topic, and will ask this question:

Ashley, Have you received your first shipment of "your" wine from Argentina? If you have, is it available for purchase. . . or, even a small taste? Sunny and I would love to try a sample of that vintage. Please advise.

Kind regards,

Joe Hasler
Spokane, WA

p.s. Thanks again for opening at 10 a.m. that morning in late May, for the tour, and the tasting. We appreciate all you do.