The Facts of the Winery Business

Once thing I've learned is that pretty much everything follows these ground rules when you’re starting a winery:

1. Make a decision
2. Find out you can’t do it that way
3. Try another way
   
4. Find out you can’t do it that way either
5. Have a glass of wine and cry a little
   
6. Try again
7. Success
   
8. Cut someone a check*

*The last step is sometimes repeated several times, depending on the number of people, and/or agencies involved.