TRAVESSIA Winery Blog

My 10 Resolutions for 2009

• Let's get the obvious one out of the way... Loose 10 pounds.  Which goes along with the next two resolutions…


• Eat more fruit.  In season.  It’s pointless to have peaches in January.  They are expensive and they suck.


• Exercise.  I mean walk 10 minutes during lunchtime 3 days a week.  Weather permitting, i.e. when it’s sunny, dry and between 62F-68F.


• Drink Italian wine.  I had a couple of bad experiences with Chianti a few years ago.  I had two different bottles which at the time I thought couldn’t have possibly been made for humans.  Probably just bad luck.  So in 2009 I will give it another shot and drink a bottle of Italian wine per month.


• Read the 4 magazines that I subscribe to.  At least look through them for interesting articles before throwing them into the “I’ll read it later” pile.


• Reduce number of blog subscriptions from 90 to 50 and stay up to date on reading them so that I don’t end up with 27 unread entries of Drinks Are On Me.


• Keep my garage clean so that I can use it for what it’s meant for… parking the car.


• Organize and back-up all my computer files, including and especially my kids pictures and movies.


• Spend more time with my #1 Queen on school related activities.


• Continue to ignore my 401K plan – it’s pointless to spend any time on it.

How about you?  Care to share?

Happy New Year to you all & Thank You for a great 2008. - Marco

It’s opening day… finally!

It has been a crazy few weeks ever since the Massachusetts ABCC approved Travessia’s winery permit.  The goal was to open before the Chirstmas holiday season.  The list of items to complete was huge and it seemed an almost impossible task.

But I’m happy to be writing here that if all goes according to the latest plan (the plan changes every day), Travessia will officially open the door this Sunday, December 14.  We won’t have a grand opening until sometime in the Spring after we’ve worked out all of the kinks, but we’ll certainly be open from this point on.  So you are all invited to come on by to say hello and more importantly finally taste our wine.  We are starting with four of our white wines… two Chardonnay and two Vidal Blanc - all 100% Massachusetts.  I know… white wine in the middle of what seems to be one of the harshest winters in the past few years!?  Well, when did people stop eating salad in the winter?  Nothing like a nicely chilled semi-sweet Vidal Blanc when it’s 25F outside… ;-)

Some things had to be left behind in a rush to get the winery open.  A major one was the website.  There was no chance that we could be opening at this time if I had dedicated any significant amount of time to the website.  So, the website will be a January project that I’m very much looking forward to.

I will hopefully get back to a regular blog posting schedule in early January and I have a lot to tell you about. I want to introduce you to some of the people who helped me create Travessia.  From my cousin Edson who is going to be running the Tasting Room and Winery Operations, to Patricia McRitchie who helped me with all of the legal paperwork at the Federal and State level (whom I’ve never met in person… got to love email and phone).  Many people had their hands in making Travessia a reality.

So… please come visit us.  The winery will be open from Noon to 6PM daily.  We are at 760 Purchase Street in downtown New Bedford.

P.S.  Please tell your family and friends about Travessia.  We can use a good word of mouth advertisement campaign.