Stone Barn wine tasting

Club member Rich Brangiforte recently held a wine tasting for the club featuring the Stone Barn wine brand, which he and fellow club member Jack Ryder make as a hobby.  The Stone Barn brand is bottled in Nahant in Jack’s stone barn and features several kinds of red and white wine.  Rich described how he and Jack buy the ingredients for specific kinds of wine (example Malbec, Merlot, etc) then follow a process of settling, fermentation and bottling (by hand!). 

After bottling and labeling, they either use or give away the wine to friends and family.  Rich also generously gave two bottles of red wine as an auction gift, the funds for which were designated to go to Camp Rotary.  Club members were given the opportunity to taste 4 kinds of red and 4 kinds of white wine during the meeting and the following message was heard in the room: “Hey, it’s a wine tasting, not a wine guzzling!”.  All in all, it was a great presentation and tasting which the members greatly enjoyed.  Thanks, Rich, for the presentation and thanks to you and Jack for the auction wine.