Before Retirement, Vance Petrunoff Was Selling Bulgarian Wines from Sonoma, CA

Tacama Vineyard has an area of about 200 hectares (494 acres) and is located in the Valley of Ica, a fertile oasis surrounded by desert. It is situated 300 kilometers from Lima the capital of Perú, and 50 kilometers from the coast, it is 400 meters above sea level. Tacama uses both French technology and receives advice from French experts. Tacama has won several awards in international shows. International Experts have classified Tacama's wines as being of worldclass quality. Professor Max Rives, emeritus Director of the French Agriculture Research Institute, says about the Tacama vineyard: “This region is suitable for producing wines under exceptional conditions … thanks to the characteristics of its climate and soil”. “This allows wines of a characteristic, inalterable type, to be obtained with a quality compared only to the products of the best wine producing countries in the world”, he adds.

O.K., my New Year's resolutions were to start blogging, quit smoking cigars, become a better person, make a bundle, etc. I tried all of the above and found out that blogging is what I used to do all my life, without recording it ...complain and brag, or brag and complain, if I am to put it in the right order. My first blog covered the secure for me area of Bulgarian wines and was written in Bulgarian. I sent a notice to everybody in the specially selected email list of closest friends, but received Dépêches that some of you dare not to read Bulgarian language. Here is a part of an email from Leslie who is decorating a house in Mexico for her dad: ======= "I can't read bulgarian silly... I need my best bulgarian buddy to translate for me... baja has been freezing... kyacking included lots of fleece, gortex, and long underwear and staying in the tent... burrrrr...not quite what I imagined.... on my way home this afternoon... wouldn't you know today it is finally sunny an...