It was a pretty busy week and I had lots of leftovers…here’s one about GTS
That hasn’t changed. He still gets up at 5 every morning, dons his blue denim work clothes, attaches his clippers to his waistband and saunters out into the vineyard to tend to his grapes.
This is how Tom Seaver spends each day and why, save for a few public appearances in New York for the Mets and his annual trek to Cooperstown in late July as the unofficial “team captain” and social director of the returning Hall of Famers, it’s pretty hard to get him off the farm. Come time to harvest the grapes in the early fall, Seaver can be found on the top of a truck, engaging in the sorting process, before the grapes go down a conveyer belt into a giant steel vat. From there, they’re trucked across the valley to Outpost Winery on Howell Mountain where the wine is made.
“I’m just one of the worker bees,” Seaver says, proudly. “I’m with my grapes every step of the way. This is the greatest thing in the world.”
It got a 92 rating in the Wine Spectator….Almost as good as his hall of fame vote!