A Great Spring

Two summers ago, we bought a make-your-own wine living social deal from a little place in old town Fort Collins called Vintages. We had heard fun things about it, and I saw their building all the time and was constantly intrigued by it.

We kinda forgot we had the vouchers until about a month before they expired, so we hurried in to make our wine last summer. Britt was pregnant, but that sure didn't stop us from having a grand evening tasting practically ALL of their varietals and eating a crap ton of delicious cheeses before deciding on what wine we would bottle. The Atkinsons chose a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, and the Saters went with an amarone. Still not sure what that blend is but I do know it is a crowd pleaser.

After that, we kinda forgot about the wine. It takes Vintages about 6 months to do what they do, so we went about our lives...and then we got an email saying our wine was ready to bottle. Hooray! The hard part would be making the custom labels for the bottles. Mike and I wanted it to be something about our little fella, and he had just discovered that the name we are considering means "a great spring", so we went to town on designing a label dedicated to our babe.  I suppose putting a name on a wine label makes our decision official?  But still, stay tuned... And Britt and Adam wanted to play into the extremely uneven gender balance of the Sater family (4 girls, one guy....he is a good sport!!)

Once our labels were emailed to Vintages, the "hard" part was done! We showed up on Saturday to more wine tasting (this time, I was the pregnant one...) more delicious cheese, and a super easy and super cool DIY process of bottling your wine, corking it, and labeling. It only took about 45 minutes for us to do 2 cases and we only jacked up maybe 2 labels each :)

"Oh, put a cork in it, Mike." (badump ching!!)

If anyone is considering doing this, I would highly recommend! Now we have a case of custom wine that I can't wait to dive into...only 14 more weeks ;)

Reese got to come help mama while the big girls stayed home with dad