Enobytes Wine Blog

For all those who travel on business and don’t take advantage of the wineries to visit in your destination cities, this column is for you. There are several good reasons beyond your own selfish needs that make visiting any available winery within reach during your business travel advisable and in some cases even necessary and I will list the top ten now…

1. Your knowledge of local agriculture will impress your client or fellow employees.
2. You will recognize wine labels at your local retailer that might have held absolutely no interest to you and had been completely obscured before.
3. You may get fired and never have a reason to return to the area making it the perfect time to become aquatinted with the local wine.
4. You can spend time socializing in something other than the hotel bar and still get to drink.
5. You will most likely get some relevant and useful insider tips on local restaurants.
6. Spouses, friends, bosses, and clients always love bottles of wine as a gift and nothing say’s thinking of you like a bottle of wine purchased at the winery.
7. Getting to know the local geography, sites, points of interest and locations of historical significance will also be knowledge gained because you will find all of these before you actually get to the winery you are looking for; I don’t know why that happens it just does.
8. If you are single the chances of meeting someone nice at a local winery is a lot greater than your chances at the local bar.
9. Have you looked at the dismal selection and the prices of a bottle of wine on that room service menu?
10. Doing something constructive with your free time while you are away from your family, friends and loved ones might be a wee bit redeeming in some small significant way.

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