I met Dave and Sara a number of years ago during a wine wandering trip in wine country just outside of Portland.
I believe it was their first ever bottling year.
Their wine was great: best rosé I had had from an American vineyard, and a great pinot blanc.
And their story was interesting.
Dave was a successful attorney in Cincinnatti Ohio and Sara was happily running a successful and growing PR firm.
But they discovered the Oregon wine country and decided that they wanted to do that - make wine.
They have done that and have prospered.
Dave's attached comments document one of the people who has contributed to achieving that prosperity.
And in that story lies a microcosm of America.
I could wax poetic, but the dollar bill tells the tale quite simply: it says "E pluribus unum.
That's us; that's America.
And we and all our forebears have all prospered under that banner and its associated and resultant corollaries.
As a country we have prospered, from our origins, like Dave and Sara have since their first bottling.
E pluribus unum.
And if we let the current regime of sadism, hate, incompetence and contrived mayhem prevail, if we let people like the Sotelo family be persecuted, we deserve the attendant dark age that will descend upon us all.
I am going to make a contribution to this family.
I thought y'all might like to consider doing so as well.
Moises Sotelo
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