My Truth

It's no secret that I like wine. I LOVE WINE! That was the easy sell for me in joining Scout & Cellar. But, there's so much more to this company that just great wine. Scout & Cellar is 100% focused on offering a cleaner, healthier and altogether better wine experience for everyone. Did you know that mass-produced wines contain the following ingredients? :

-Grapes
-Up to 350 ppm (parts per million) of sulfites
-Up to 16g of added sugar or sweetener concentrate
-Ferrocyanide
-Ammonium phosphate
-Copper sulfate
-Mega-Purple
-GMO ingredients
-Synthetic pesticides

A simple google search for any of the above listed ingredients will made me question what exactly was going into the wines I was consuming. Pesticides? Ugh! But, in vineyards that produce mass quantities of wine, it's how the grapes can be maintained on a large scale. Not to mention all of the other additives to make that wine taste the same each time you buy it. Did you know that the FDA is not required to list the ingredients on bottles of wine?

The more I thought about what was being added to the wines I was drinking, the more important I realized it was (for me) to start paying attention to what I was putting in my body. I'm a cancer survivor (7 years and counting baby!!) and I make so many decisions on what I eat based on that. I've cut out sugar, especially added sugar in processed foods. There are many research studies out there that will tell you that sugar may in fact, feed cancer cells. Am I perfect? No, of course not. But I'm definitely more aware of how the food I eat, may impact my body.

Speaking of cancer, it's not going away. More and more cases of cancer are being diagnosed everyday, in people younger and younger. Yes, there have been amazing advances in medicine, but we've still got light years to go. I firmly believe that one of the largest contributors to the uptick in the diagnosis of cancers, is due to environmental factors. Especially what humans are consuming daily - I'm looking at you pesticides! There's got to be a better way and I think Scout & Cellar is at the forefront of creating safer, alternative methods to raising grapes naturally and producing a healthier product to drink.

So, YES, I think this is an amazing opportunity. I want to be able to enjoy a bottle of wine with friends and know that the best possible ingredients are being used. I want my customers to feel confident in the integrity and reliability of clean-crafted wine. Let me share this incredible experience with you!!!