Winemakers Group Bottle and Cork Delivery
The Winemakers Group recently completed our bulk bottle and cork purchase. Stacey Taylor led this year’s effort with Ed Reyes also involved in the project. Around two dozen OCWS winemakers purchased 214 cases of bottles and 3000 corks.
Two pallets of goods were delivered to the new OCWS office location at the OC Fair and Event Center on Friday, January 30. All bottles and corks were distributed the next day by Stacey and Ed with additional help coming from Wendy Taylor, John Lane, Raul Serna and John Kienstra.
With the OCWS office moving to our new location in mid-January, coordinating the bottle delivery with the office move was challenging. We also had to coordinate delivery with fairgrounds “no access days.” Many thanks to Fran Gitsham, our OCFEC Liaison and Facility Coordinator for her help with that.
It has been over three years since we last had a bottle purchase. Since that time prices have gone up dramatically, supply chains have been disrupted and delivery time has increased. In a microcosm, the Winemakers Group had to deal with the same supply issues and difficulties that commercial California wineries have been experiencing. Working with a trusted supplier who we have used in the past, we were able to secure bottles for our members at very reasonable prices and without a long lead time.
—Ed Reyes, ed@OCWS.org