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Funny you ask, I'm starting a show called Soak Quest where I'll be traveling around the country onboarding founders and asking them what really is keeping them from accepting it. A big part of this is gaining that understanding, but also to introduce bitcoiners as a customer base to these people. We are a big group with real buying power now and itll be cool watching businesses realize this.

Businesses generate money, but ultimate are on the fiat treadmill where their costs rise, so their prices rise and their margin gets continuously attacked. Bitcoin is the way off that treadmill, but theres a lot of info to digest before you can get to that point

They're implemented as best I can.

Liquor compliance has me stuck to one payments processor that doesnt like bitcoin. After spending hours arguing with them and even having Jack Mallers reach out to help set it up, I've given up with them.

That said, you can check out with bitcoin on my site. It has its own checkout flow and a bit less customizable orders via zaprite, but I also process a ton of bitcoin orders from people who just message me to make a custom pack.

I dont, but otherwise would fit their criteria.

While there are good things about biodynamism, as soon as I found out that I have to pay like $3k a year to be "certified", it became a clear scam in my mind.

Jon! Would love to have you out. I do private tastings as things pop up, but dont have a formal tasting room. Now through September is the peak time to come.

How can you help peony lane succeed? Outside of wine sales, just having bticoiners visit and enjoying awesome conversation in person fires me up to continue working on this path.

I grow Pinot Noir exclusively and its the only red that grows well in my climate.

Assuming everyhting goes well, you're looking at 4 years before the first crop after planting and I age another 2 years before I sell the wine.

That first wine won't even be that good as the grapes need a decade + to come into young maturity and even more time to truly become great. My dad planted my pinot vineyard 20 years ago

yeah i gotta meet that guy

Every variety is different, but typically people start picking throughout september and some into late august.

I harvest Pinot Noir at the beginning of October

I've put a lot of mental energy into the pricing in sats model, but I just dont think its there unless i want to change the price all the time which the $ price, but paid in sats does for me.

Its a cool idea, but no one buys if bitcoin goes up and i go broke if bitcoin goes down.

bitcoin is too volatile rn for me to do it

It'll be on Nostr and I'll be posting all about it when the first episode drops. hopefully in a week or two

Sulfites are naturally occurring compounds that preserve the wine. They're added to kill unwanted bactera/etc and protect the wine from oxygen.

They are the poster child for wine additives and get way too much blame. That said, they are over used and if a winery is overusing them, theyre probably overusing every other additive nad you'll feel bad afterwards

I mean, theres no answer to this, but to tell you a place to start.

Have you drunk much port or sherry?

Most people get into wines with sweet whites then sweet reds, then whites, then reds

Focus on quality. no one is going to part with their bitcoin over junk. Make it last and make sure you appreciate the bitcoin they give you or they wont give it to you again.

That must have been a while ago! Not sure what that reasoning was as I've had lightning going since 2022.

Anyways, I want good tax accounting so I mostly just use strike

To a degree, its just another fad. Its definitely whats hot right now, but its also a return to old world style wine making.

People are realizing that wine has become a bit of just a chemistry experiment in the USA and want wine that connects them to the land and doesnt make them fee like crap afterwards. "Natural" is the way its been made for generations.

That said, Natural wine (in the USA) doesnt mean anything legally. I have no problem with that because fuck regulations and paperwork, but its a bit of a buzz word. Look for low intervention wine, french or italian for similar experiences.

The wine shop person will know what you want

Deploying $25.40 for another share, sir

honestly, I think you're better off looking for wines that are just less bad for you. Look for natural, low intervention or generally french and italian wines to avoid chemicals in them. You'll feel SO MUCH better after drinking these kinds of wines. Seriously. Like hangovers arent even part of my life anymore when I drink my wine.

Other than that, the only thing I can think that that red wines are higher in antioxidents

I've got a longer answer about the wine in another comment, but basically, my dad was doing it this way, its healthier and the knowledge barrier to entry is lower because I didn't have to become a chemist to make good wine.

Bitcoin has BECOME my business. I planned on just selling wine to tourists and my local community following the business models of those around me, but then bitcoiners started asking to buy my wine...in droves and now they are the only customers I care about.

I wont say an exact amount, but enough that I should have been selling some to cover expenses. Thats the only meaningful amount that matters for businesses

I really just was in a rut quarter life crisis time of my life and new i both wanted to start a business and wanted something that was mroe of a side hustle so I would be committed to it and would force myself to follow through.

My dad made wine as a hobby and had 3 acres of amazing Pinot Noir grapes + all the gear to at least get me started. It was really just a perfect opportunity that I had to jump on with the mindset "if my dad can figure out how to make wine, im sure i can."

I really just was in a rut quarter life crisis time of my life and new i both wanted to start a business and wanted something that was mroe of a side hustle so I would be committed to it and would force myself to follow through. My dad made wine as a hobby and had 3 acres of amazing Pinot Noir grapes + all the gear to at least get me started. It was really just a perfect opportunity that I had to jump on with the mindset "if my dad can figure out how to make wine, im sure i can."

I've basically moved my entire business towards bitcoiners. I wont say how much, but a meaningful amount of people pay in bitcoin. I keep it all and have honesstly gotten more than most businesses would keep on a percentage basis because I chose loans over selling bitcoin to cover expenses.

People use bitcoin to buy things if you give them a reason to

Most of them do the worst. There are only a few that do well here, but those that do, do REALLY well.

I grow Pinot Noir and it is insane. The grapes are so good that my dad, who was making wine as a hobby (he has basically no sense of taste or smell) was getting emails for Somms that got introduced to his wine randomly. Wihtout that, I wouldnt have had the confidence to start making wine.

Riesling, Gerwetztraminer and Chardonnay also do well here no other reds

The answer to both is the seasonality. I love that most of the work comes at once aroudn harvest becasue it gives me a ton of freedom throughout the rest of the year, but fall is a pretty magical time out here and I spend it working my ass off.

I love that it gets me outside, but it ties me down pretty hard.

Good and bad there

Preston Pysh and Jeff Booth come to mind.

both are extremely well rounded and I find myself becoming smarter whiel being around them. Jeff blows my mind and i feel like hes living in an elevated plane above me and Preston is just so well rounded that its wild to witness

Honestly I didn't realize how much chemistry people used.

Probably a bit naive on my part, but my dad had been making it pretty low tech kind of way and i figured there was just a more professional version of this that most people did. I had no idea how many chemicals people used in winemaking and honestly I'm still a bit in the dark about that because I refuse to use them