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Posted by kevingoodman • 6/28/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
For eight to nine years I was involved in martial arts particularly with competitive Judo. One thing that’s always interested me was fencing and I have spent ten years vowing to enter the sport. But to this day have not succeeded.
Something I’m already involved with but would like to elaborate on is home wine making. I mean, I’m always wanting to see what else the yeast will eat up – honey, dandelions, kava kava. Now my plastic and glass fermenters aren’t good enough and I need charred oak cask and fancier bottles.
What do you want to get into?
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Wine growing. I collected wine years ago then sold everything to a NY investment group. One of the truly dumbest things I've done yet. But we relocated to the south-east where it rains every week and the soil is mostly clay, just like some parts of France where you'll find First-Growth vineyards. I'd love to get into it here and give it a try sometime. BTW, that's also the kind of soil where the best Havana cigars come from.
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I grow several varieties of wine grapes I kind of share that same dream. My ultimate vision would be vineyard and winery in commercial production. I'm also interested in grape breeding (trying to get hybrids closer to classic vinifera)and have read alot about it but not yet got into anything. - of course ultimately it would be about having something that is uniquely yours
Wine like fine art has proven with sensibility to be a better investment than most traditional investments. -
I considered a partnership making wine with another engineer I worked with in Northern California. He had his eye on a 10 acre plot of land just above Sacramento that had promise. We were both wine collectors but his career took him out of the country and so did mine. Can't think of a better way to make a living, though.
Except for a character I met up there that had a small cactus business out of his home. He had a vision (not sure where he got it) about Echinocactus grusonii, better known as barrel cactus. 20 years before I met him he had bought a hundred pounds of seed and spread it out over five acres he owned in Sacramento. His idea was since it was a cactus it only had to be irrigated once a year and what rain they got took care of the rest. Some how he knew the cactus would be popular to interior decorators and collectors later on and he was right. It takes 20 years for the things to grow a good size. He sold the entire harvest to single buyer for $15 (they were selling for about $35 in 1980 when I met him) a head and became a millionaire overnight.
Talk about vision. Good luck with your venture. -
wow - that's funny. Interesting too because I collect cold hardy opuntia cacti and have fair share of the more interesting Trichocereus varieties.
But yeah, who would have thought you could actually strike a fortune with cacti. If he actually planned it he was probably regarded as a bit eccentric?
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playing cello-
My wife plays the Cello. She's Polish so don't even say it...but yeah they started her at the age of six. She came here because music was the only thing she could do in Poland.
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I don't really have a "bucket list", but one of the things that would be on it if I did would be skydiving. I love to fly and would dearly love to jump out of a perfectly good plane just for the fun of it. I've just never gotten up the nerve and the money at the same time. Now that I've got kids, I've got to get a babysitter, too. -
Hmmm, I don't know, I do so much already! -
I wish I could breakdance, haha
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