Just to review: yes, Randall Grahm has decided to move his Bonny Doon Vineyards tasting room to a new location in Davenport. The old-fashioned white clapboard structure on Highway One (next door to the Roadhouse) that has been home to Davenport Gallery for the last three years, will become the new tasting headquarters for Grahm’s glittering array of varietals.
He’s thinking May might be the time of the latest transformation. And it makes sense.
The tasting room will be highly visible, unlike its current location tucked behind a bevy of other wineries. It will be free-standing and be able to announce itself unmistakably to inquiring wine seekers. And it will sit at the foot of Bonny Doon mountain, where a few years ago…..it all began.
We’ll keep you posted on specifics as they break!
It seems that Bonny Winery is always in a state of dialectical collapse, even revels in it, plus, it rarely has a consistent product, even after 32 years of making wine, that followers can grab onto and seek out each year. Even the Earth location of Enterprise-Grahm flys around the county confusing followers about where the ship is headed much less landed. I suggest Randal slow down, smell the wine he is making, and drink a bottle or two of Ridge Wines and contemplate how this great winery goes about creating and Continuing a successful wine operation that is loved and respected world wide. Bottom line, Ridge, goes about its business successfully, unlike Bonny Doon, without the need for mirrors or meltdown
Certainly the failure of the restaurant at the present location has forced the relocation to a much smaller and one would assume, less expensive premises for the tasting room, and I’m sure being closer to home is a plus too. Not being privy to the financials of small private wineries I cannot comment as to Randal’s business success but one hopes that by following his heart and having the courage to make changes, wether they work or not, he is enjoying his life to the full, happy and with few regrets. Bonny Doon from my own experience is still very well represented on the wine lists of many of the best restaurants in the country, as is Ridge. As the saying goes “different strokes for different folks”
randall always creative…should be fun…just hope the macdougals know about this…
also like the backdrop for this picture of randall