Lord Puffer Wine Club

01/16/2026

01/25/2025

Happy Birthday Marty! We wish you a fantastic birthday filled with lots of love and surrounded by your beautiful family. Thanks for sharing you wine knowledge and home through the Lord Puffer Wine Club! We really appreciate all you've done through your education on winemaking and by sharing your home with all of us! Salud! We will toast to your health and happiness!

03/03/2024

video of our 2024 bottling event. ( see below)

01/25/2024

Happy Birthday to my Wine-making buddy "Lord Puffer " (Marty Benowitz )! Wishing you a fantastic day of celebrating with your beautiful wife Jeanne! Barb and I will lift a glass of our wine and toast to your health and happiness and give thanks for the many years of friendship!

01/04/2024

Santa Bill visiting his little kids....................

01/20/2023

Good advice for the new year!

01/19/2023

The Oenology Poem by Doug Dittrich.
Poet Laureate and Wine Club member.

01/17/2023

Thank you to all of our wonderful Lord Puffer Wine Club members! Yesterday was rainy, windy and cold but the "warmth" shared by everyone made it a special day!

Thank you to Lord and Lady Puffer for hosting this final chapter of the Lord Puffer Wine Club which was absolutely wonderful! Thank you to all of the many Lord Puffer Wine club members for many many years of wonderful memories
and lasting friendships!

Jabula,
Marty, Jeanne, and Bill

This is a list of the wines bottled yesterday:

Super Tuscan 2018 - 50% Cabernet Sauvignon (Eden Canyon) and 50% Sangiovese- Tobin James -Paso Robles
Cabernet Sauvignon 2019- Eden Canyon
Old Vine Zinfandel 2019 -Colarossi Vineyard in Lodi
Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah 50/50 blend 2021 EdenCanyon
Syrah 2019 Eden Canyon
Sangiovese 2019- Klinkerbrink
Cab Fran 2020- Sextant winery -Paso Robles
GSM 2020. Grenach/Syrah/Mouverdre- Sextant Winery -Paso Robles


Cheers to everyone. No goodbyes! Until we see you again!
Thanks for the wonderful memories!

12/30/2022

Lord Puffer and his wine club volunteers unloading two barrels of Wine. One barrel of Cabernet Franc and one barrel of Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre (GSM). Thank you to volunteers Mike Ernst, David Dirkes, Mike Simon, Joe Ventura, Mike Warlick and Bob Vaughn.

And a big thanks to Lord Puffer, Marty Benowitz, and Lady Puffer Jeanne Benowitz for picking up the wine from Paso Robles for our wine bottling in January!

09/15/2022

Rain sleet or hail can't keep a wino from crushing his grapes! This was in 2015 when our wine club was small and Marty Benowitz, David Dirkes, and myself were the primary winemakers! Marty is the Winemaker and we were his wino slaves!