After a more than 50 day ocean voyage (don’t get me started…) the 400 cases of Israeli wine I have most recently imported arrived in California and cleared US Customs late last week.

Stay tuned for an email blast (and blog post) about all the new wines and how to get ‘em before the weekend.

This wine has been a long time coming.

I have yet quite to figure out how to seamlessly manage the wine inventory side of this little biz.  Maybe my brain is not just big enough. As Winnie the Pooh once famously said, “I have a small bear brain.”

Different wines selling at different rates from different wineries who need widely varying amounts of time to prep an order for shipping then somewhere between 40-55 days on the ocean followed by uncontrollable yet all-powerful Customs and FDA agents…all this (and other factors too) make for a level of uncertainty and riskiness (having too much or too little wine at the right place at the right time).

Overlay inventory management with heavy cashflow needs and payment lag times, especially in an upside down economy when people take longer to pay (I’ve been guilty of this on occasion, too, frankly) and you have something like an enigma wrapped inside of a mystery inside the set of The Perfect Storm.

In any event….the wine is here! The wine is here!

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