NAME THAT CANTINA (WINERY)

26 FEB 2010

It is time to name the winery and here is your chance to vote for your favorite.  We have winnowed 30 names down to 6 and I have included an explanation with the why and wherefore behind the thinking of each one.  Don't pay any attention to the length of the explanation, some are easier to explain than others, and they are in alphabetical order so no bias will enter.   By the way, "E", all of the above doesn't count, but feel free to write in your own idea if none suit of ours suit you.  Send the vote viral to your facebook friends if you are so inclined and you can vote through my site on facebook or at my email:  ddstanford@hotmail.com with the title "vote".

We should be digging inside 2 weeks (I hope i didn't write that 2 weeks ago), so vote as soon as you have thought about all our ideas, bounced them off your colleagues at the water cooler, your friends over coffee at Latte land, your imaginary friends in your dreams, etc.

INIZIAMO!!

 1. Bacco Estates--our B&B is Nascondiglio di Bacco or hideout of Bacco the god of wine, also, my dog is named Bacco and he is the mayor of our zone.

 2.  Eris--the greek name for the god of discord, meaningful because we have planted varieties which are not traditional for our area, planted the rows and the vines too close, too low to the ground etc. according to our contadino neighbors.  Also Eris is the largest of the dwarf planets, 3X farther from the sun than the most famous dwarf, Pluto (it got demoted, if you didn't hear) and since we want to be the "biggest, little winery...

 3.  Manus--in the piceno dialect this can signify made by hand or the sweat of your labors or also your ancestor who had passed on and was prayed to for protection for the house and livelihood in ancient times.  This was usually signified by a little terra cotta figure of some kind ( as seen in the film Gladiator)

 4.  Martius--for the god, Mars, who by legend was responsible for rescuing his people from invaders by leading them to the Ascoli Piceno region behind his earthly representative, a woodpecker.  He also had some lesser known attributes for the early Romans as the god of spring and fertility.

 5.  Palmensis--Pliny the Elder in ancient times called the grapes from the piceno area, palmensis

 6.  Post scriptum--Raffaele and I have both changed careers, lives and lifestyles to embark on this wine making folly, so this indicates "that which comes after" our previous vita.  Originally, the idea was to call the winery PS to signify the above and have a second significance as our names are Paolini and Stanford, but our winemaker thought it sounded too industrial, hence the change to Post Scriptum.

Vote as soon as you can and invite others.  We hope to decide in the near future.  Remember, the name should be easily remembered and invite an incredible marketing campaign (think t shirts, mugs, wine openers, magazine centerfolds etc)

Thanks to all for participating!  The pictures are of the B&B with Bacco the dog, the vineyard and to get you in the mood for all those ancient greek and roman names, I included a temple from Agrigento, Sicily.

dds

PS,, since PS is the leading vote getter right now, you can add that to your choices. dds