Merlove meets Lino Bozzano

August 11, 2008

Hello everyone,

We recently made a quick trip to Arroyo Grande in Southern California to meet with 3rd generation farmer Lino Bozzano. If you could not tell by his name he is of Italian descent. He is the vineyard manager for Laetitia Vineyards & Winery. He also makes his own label & yes of course he makes a Merlot. I highly recommend it! It's a rich and juicy Merlot.

My little brother Craig (aka C-Rez) & myself filmed Rudy & Lino surfing from the Pismo Beach pier. Rudy thought it was interesting that Lino is making a Merlot where many other folks in the area are making Pinot Noir. It was also interesting to hear that many of the vineyard managers and winemakers of that area love to surf, including Lino. Rudy also loves to surf and thought that it would be fun to get some footage of them surfing together. There was also the idea of letting a bottle of Merlot drop into the sea of mediocre Merlot and have it pop back up and float sideways, but this didn't quite happen. The bottle was dropped and never came back up. Lino swam under the pier a few times to look for it, but no luck so instead we had a sacrifice of Merlot to the sea.

Stay tuned for some of these surfing shots in the final cut of Merlove.

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-Marisol