Dear Subscriber First Name,
Here at Bloodwood we pride ourselves on the quality of our wine and we actively promote the harmony of fine wine and food. To quote our web site:

"To fully understand the styles of wine we make at Bloodwood, you need to think of the symbiosis between wine and food. We believe good wine is really food, and that it should be explored and enjoyed in the context of a balanced meal in the company of people you honour. And as with balanced, wholesome food, good wine treated with the respect and restraint it deserves, can add enormously to your enjoyment of the best things in life."

This of course leads to something that is anathema to the Bloodwood ethos - I'm talking of course about ... spam.

We live in an age where major telcos ignore data security, digital profiling is more invasive than a Russian despot, uninformed opinions are called truth-telling, and perfectly reasonable emails from Bloodwood often end up in your email spam folder. Here at the vineyard we spend far too much time constructing each of our irregular newsletters for them to be lost forever in the general sewerage of the interwebs, so if you want to keep receiving our carefully crafted rants from time to time, mark them as (ahem!) "safe" in your email program.

Unfortunately, we can't explain in detail exactly how to do that, partly because as IT gurus we are pretty decent winemakers, but also because there are so many different email programs out there. Our captive IT guy says something about blah-blah-blah “right-click the email” or blah-blah-blah “just google safe sender Outlook or safe sender gmail". Not that he knows anything about wine and he probably has a can of spam in his cupboard!

Safely yours,

bigmen at bloodwood.biz

(Steve and Rhonda)

ps let us know if you need assistance with this. Our IT guy truly is captive - we keep him in the budgie cage and has become quite tame.