A vineyard owner's morning ritual is a lesson in how thin a weather window can be

So the tasting room and the events are basically a second business bolted onto the farm. Do they treat it that way, separate books and all, or is it just all one pile?

A nine day window. Anyone who grumbles about a two week material lead time should sit with that. It puts things in perspective.

The crew scheduling is the part that would break most operators. A builder can slide a sub a week and eat it. He cannot slide the fruit.

@derekj19 that is the usual problem with a small vineyard listing. The broker mashes the wine sales, the events and the land value into one number, and a buyer cannot tell what they would actually be buying. Plenty of buyers walk away for exactly that reason, and the right move is to have the three pieces broken out before pricing anything.

Thatch did he own the land or lease it? Because if he's leasing and taking all that risk on the fruit that's a rough seat.

@joe_delgado5 that's the question. There's a version of this where the investor owns the dirt and the vines and somebody else takes the harvest risk for a lease payment, and a version where the owner eats all of it and hopefully makes more. Sounds like this guy ate all of it.

Twenty two four. He answered a greeting with a brix reading. I love that.

This is exactly the kind of exposure that makes an investor step back. Income that hinges on nine specific days in September is a different asset from income that arrives every month.

He was squeezing the grapes into something called a refractometer, which I had to go look up. Reading this thread twice like everything else.

@tylerbrooks9 same, though I notice the owner didn't seem miserable. He seemed like a guy doing the thing he does. Different question than whether I'd want to fund it.