Enfold Lucy Stomp 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013—the third annual opportunity to don a Lucy Ricardo peasant blouse and bandana, hike up your balloonish skirt into a big ole belt, and slip your feet into a vat of beautiful just-harvested grapes.  No worries, your feet daintily dip into three cleansing solutions before they touch the pristine purple berries.
Last year it was so hot that the cool grapes invited Lucy Stompers to climb on into the vat and enjoy the chill but this year, slipping one’s tootsies into the glistening harvest was tougher because temperatures were cool and skies were gray. Undaunted, though, our intrepid Stompers clambered into the giant vat and mashed away. Soon they’d transformed our grapes into a rich-hued crush of skins, seeds, and gorgeous pinkish-purple juice.
This Stomp welcomed a delightfully diverse group of Enfold Wine Club Members, family, and other friends of many years. We had doctors, nurses, educators, and floral designers from Seattle, Hillsborough, and New York, painters from Palm Springs, hospital execs from Fresno, dentists from Paso, and two veterans of the remarkable pilgrims’ walk in Spain, the Camino de Santiago.
There were just 30 of us — that’s the maximum number of guests we can squeeze into our outdoor dining pergola. We like having these intimate groups for our Stomps—everyone gets a chance to trade stories about how they love Paso Robles wines as they pass the olives.
We only harvested a row or two this year; a professional crew comes to harvest the majority of our grapes. But it’s great fun to look up and down the rows and see our Stompers meticulously and lovingly cradling our grapes in one hand and cautiously snipping the stem with their trusty clippers. Joseph gave a detailed lesson on safety, raisining, and grape shoulders before we started.
After harvesting and stomping, we’d worked up an appetite. We settled into the dining pergola for cold poached salmon, Cousin Tom’s mahhhhvelous macaroni salad, Rick’s heavenly crusty bread, Joseph’s sausages and peppers, guacamole, fruit, and Anita’s truffles for dessert. And for party favors? Everyone got a bottle of the Cabernet Sauvignon that we stomped last year.
We hope a turn at our Lucy Stomp fits into your travel plans sometime. Please let us know if you want to reserve a spot at the table for 2014’s harvest.
Salute La Famiglia! Viva Lucy Stomp 2013!
Anita and Joseph
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I thought of you, Anita, a couple of weeks ago when I was here at the library –and just impetuously Googled you. (I have only done this with one other old acquaintance long ago–not such good results.) And I got to read Joseph’s fun and informative write-ups about your wine venture—so came to the library again today to see if your Lucy Stomp was going to be the last Sunday of October or the first Sunday of November as had been the dates I read in those letters–and see you already had it! I asked Kathy (Minor) about joining in and had planned to check with Carol McLeod–to make our old foursome. Can I sign up for next year now–or are all 30 spaces already taken?
P.S. I loved your wine-naming contest–and the winners’ names–very creative.
P.P.S. You are only the 4th people who have this email address (I tried not to give it but this machine –unlike you above–said it was required). Please do not do anything with it. I do not want to join the modern world quite yet–maybe when I retire.