The Switzer Family consists of three brothers, our wives, my nephew and niece, and my 83-year-old mother. As I said before my name is Cord (my real name is Spencer Alwin Switzer, Junior – too long, too hard, needed shortcut) and my wife is Sandy. I am the G-1 – the “Go-for Number 1” – I go for this, I go for that. Sandy is the General Manager, we all refer to her as “Miss Purse Strings”. If one of us spends 39 cents for a box of paper clips and want our money back, we better have a receipt. Brother #2 – Jene (really, it is Harold Eugene) is our Winemaster. He says a Winemaster has to spend time in the vineyard doing the dirty work as well as the winery. I can not think of anything he dislikes more than being out in the vineyard – hot, dirty, cold, wet – not his thing but he does not have a choice if needed. We try to keep him out of the vineyard except for at most a few days during harvest. His wife is Sandra, we can not afford to bring her in-house yet but hope to soon. Their daughter is Chardonnay, really, Alexandra-Marie Chardonnay. At age 8, she has probably put more bottles of wine on the shelves in the Tasting Room and tasted more wines than most adults ever touch in their life. Brother #3 – Bert (Bert Louis and you will have to get him to tell about his name) is the Vineyard Director. He is the antithesis of Jene – give him a tractor, some dirt, some vines and let him do his thing. Minerva is his wife and the Tasting Room Manager. We are fortunate that she also speaks Spanish – sometimes I understand her Spanish better than I can her English and I do not speak Spanish. Mark – age 13 – is their son and has been around the wine business since he was born. He has done and is doing all stages of the process – this summer he is in charge of the 6400 vines we potted to grow out for planting this fall. Oma – Oma (grandmother in German) is the 83-year-old mother of the three brothers and our “antique labeling machine”. We do not have big fancy equipment – labeling the bottles one by one is her job. Getting her to start at 10 o'clock when we open does not happen - she sets her own hours. “Friends” – I can not begin to tell you how important these people are and have been. If it were not for “friends” we would not be in business today. “Friends” have given us grapes, lent us equipment, helped pick grapes, bottle, label and have helped in more ways then I can list. To them we are forever grateful.

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