2 posts tagged “petaluma gap grape and wine alliance”
What does the resident realtor do with himself when he's not pounding the pavement with his agent/broker hat on? The answer is simple. He makes wine. Really good wine. Wine that has been scooping medals all over wine country this year and last.
Timo's homestead, handcrafted, boutique bottles of spicy Que Syra Syrah start off as the teeniest, tinest grapes on his West-side Petaluma back-yard hill, flourish through the growing season with tons of TLC, are picked at their peak toward the end of October (Syrah is a much later varietal than popular Pinot in these parts), crushed on the premises, fermented in the garage, pressed right on the doorstep and barreled right where he can keep his eye on the current vintage 'til it's time to bottle on-site.
Although these award winning wines (Gold- Sonoma Harvest Fair 2006 - Double Gold and third in Show - Marin County Fair 2007 and Silver -Sonoma Harvest Fair 2007) are not available for purchase, clients and neighbors of the resident realtor are pretty well-impressed with Timo's rather unique tool of the trade.
How many real estate agents can lay claim to be an award-winning winemaker in their free time? Not many!
This year's 2007 bumper crop is still hanging on the turning vines. It will be among the very last within the Petaluma Gap Grape and Wine Association to be harvested next Saturday. I'll be keeping you posted......
Petaluma's soon to be carefully restored Sunset Line and Twine Building will undoubtedly make a graceful transition from the only silk mill west of the Mississippi into multiple luxury live/work condominiums.
If Saturday night's Petaluma Educational Foundation Silver Anniversary Fundraiser, dramatically staged in the empty shell of this registered historical building was anything to go by, the rebirth of a national and local treasure should be quite a considerable buzz in this city's real estate community.
Petaluma Preservation Group has big plans afoot to create the luxury dwellings and some 700 of the city's leading business, civic and social movers and shakers had a first-hand taste of this landmark interior at Saturday's pre-renovation educational extravaganza.
Doubling fundraising revenue from last year's event held down the road at the equally historic Petaluma Railroad Freight Building, Petaluma Educational Foundation raised a staggering $350, 000 gross in this 2007 glitzy, red-tie event.
Long broken windows were artfully draped with red velvet swags, time-worn wooden floorboards were swept and scrubbed. Vintage restrooms, repainted and dressed up with a glamorous 1920s style toiletry station, decorators transformed the upper floor entirely with table seating for 700. Stunning in black and white, with elegant tabletop crystal chandeliers, white floral arrangements and clever placement of some of the most historic and striking large items of original silk manufacturing machinery.
Talk about staging. It was a win-win for all in attendance and will stand as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have wined and dined with a who's who of Petaluma, under the roof of one of the best known buildings in the city!
Petaluma Educational Foundation celebrates 25 years of funding programs and scholarships for all city students of local public, charter and not for profit private schools.
Our resident realtor, Timo was thrilled to have helped boost the Live Auction portion of the PEF event by donating a case of hand-selected Petaluma Gap Grape and Wine Alliance vintages. Each of the 12 bottles was produced from grapes grown entirely in the cool-climate local of the famous Petaluma Gap fog tunnel. This case raised $1,100 alone!
Timo's limited edition, handcrafted 2005 Cool Climate Que Syra Syrah was amongst the case of local wines.
