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Wanted recording this guy Travis is we were good friends and he had a band double o Metro
And it was good times and then he became the singer for a blind
Mellon, so we had called them up and said could we open for your band Adam in Boulder when you come through and
We open and we sold a couple hundred tickets right and it made the venue sell out
And then we got to go do another one with them and then another one with them and it was like
This is amazing. We figured it out. We know how to do it. We can be a rock band now and at that moment
I think we got bored
Maddie was born and it was like if I go what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna be around this baby
I
Probably be gone seven months a year and the bit more successful you get the more you're gone
So I basically called my brothers and told them about what was going on and I said dudes
I'm gonna quit playing music
So I quit recording and I quit playing the band and I
had a house with three cats two dogs a wife and a baby in Boulder and
No job. I couldn't get a job while I've been recording. I wasn't learning any other trades, you know
I kind of I mean I tell my parents pretty much everything and pretty open relationship. So hey guys, I don't want to do I
Don't have any ideas right now
But
What do you think I should do you know look for advice
Then my dad showed up with these two magazines and said I've got an apple orchard up in Canada
I want to turn it into a vineyard
Would you and Aaron come up live in the picker shack dig the holes with me get the get the vines going like do you want to do it and
At the time no because I don't know anything about wine
I mean I've had more than 10 mohawks. It's you don't think I'm gonna be the wine guy, right?
Eventually he said yeah, let's do it
So then then we decided let's move to Canada
And then we started living here and I dug my first hole just right out here in the vineyard
And then another and another and worked with this really good group of people and my dad and my mom and
Aaron would be out there, you know the baby peon with a little maddy on it
And we'd be digging holes and there's 9,000 grapes 9,000 holes and you know two or three hundred posts back there
And that's when we got into the grapes learned about irrigation learned learned everything that I did not know about
Coming into an already established wine region, I knew that I'm not gonna start the same way I started in audio
I'm not going to be an intern. I'm not going to get coffees
I'm not going to record crappy bands to be able to get to record better bands to build it
I'm not gonna do that and I'm not gonna start playing, you know
Like shows for no one and work my way up to playing shows for people
I'm going to find a way to get in at the top. So I googled it
And I would basically type in how do I make wine?
As you're going it starts to become this game of basically ask a question and then do something ask a question and do something
So with wine making I was asking questions like a lot of questions and I was working on
Raspberries whatever fruit I could get, you know and white buckets in the basement, but I was using the terminology
I wanted to know the lingo. So when I was speaking to other winemakers, I could hang out in that conversation. I
Knew how to make the wine. I wasn't making good wine
But I was doing good wine making practices on raspberries and whatnot, you know not with a right tank
But with a tank and then when I started going to wineries
I said I'm not gonna dress like these guys because I'm gonna look like one of them
I got to be different so I'm gonna just dress like myself
Which is a t-shirt and pair of jeans and you know shorts whatever and ride my skateboard and I'd walk into these wineries and
Hey, it's the owner here
My name is Tony Lewis. I just wanted to talk to the owner
Well, I just have an appointment and be like no no I have a winery down the road
And I just want to talk to him about winemaking. Oh, let me see if he's in.
They often put up a barrier around them like they're protecting their job or something or as I'm open
All my notes for my winemaking was on the internet
I posted it my graphs everything the yeast I use when I put in my nutrients what nutrients I'm using and why I'm using them
How I pressed it everything I?
Share an open book an open book has been what's allowed me to fit in with so many winemakers that normally you wouldn't fit in with
We hire mainly musicians in the very beginning of vibrant vine
We'd have the drum set set up in the barrel room
And when we're tasting the barrels next to the drum set it was uncannying how much more clear the wine in the barrels next to the
Drum set was then the wine that was further away
So at the time we just thought it was cool
And then years went on we decided to start another winery
And we stumbled across this frequency 528
It's a frequency that a lot of people will
Downtune their middle C to the frequency to use it in music. It's therapeutic the love frequency
So we decided well, let's use that in our wine and we literally strapped speakers to the wine tank
put a big tie down around it so it's tight and played the
Super high volumes 528 to the wine and you could start to see the patterns on the top of the wine where it would make a
geometric figure out of water ripples
And it's usually a month or two months after you bottle it that it tastes bad. It's called bottle shock
It's kind of a sharp feeling on your tongue and it tastes tannic and acidic and we found that we
Got rid of bottle shock completely
I'm so grateful for the opportunity to fail because if I had never got to fail I wouldn't be where I am
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