Planes, trains and automobiles just about sums up the nature of my trip so far. If it hasn't been one form of transportation it has been the other. I have been away for just over a week now. In case you are wondering what exactly I do when I travel, I have compiled a short diary of my exploits in North America.

I start my pre-Passover travels this week, to the US, Canada and the UK, basically my three largest export markets. For those of you who envy the life of the business traveler, my schedule looks something like this, those are the parts I know about.

We work really hard to do things properly and get things right. But sometimes, despite our best efforts, the odd gremlin sneaks into the system.

I left New York on Tuesday evening for a couple of days in London before going home. I managed to give a short presentation to a group from the UJIA on Wednedsay night and made an appearance at a wine tasting in Hendon on Thursday

In a previous article about blending I mentioned that we were going to add some new wines to our portfolio. During the January blending session we had noticed that there were a few wines that were not good enough to go into the D series wines and would have to be blended into the Canaan series. In addition there was a batch of 2008 Cab that came from our Meron Vineyard, the wine was particularly interesting as it reminded us of the Single Vineyard Cab that we produced in 2005, it had a very obvious black currant and eucalyptus character, it was young and ready for drinking with no further barrel aging.