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Half-Life... A Quarter Century of Growing and Making Pinot Noir in Napa

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The Rothko Chapel...Cold Dark Void Yet Simple And Intriguing!

December 29, 2011

My almost teenage daughter walked into the living room singing: “Your heart is like the Rothko Chapel, cold dark void, yet simple and intriguing, somewhat comforting, got me believing almost anything. There was this line by Charlie Parker, probably worth remembering: ‘if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn, chances are you'll never be reborn’”

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Every Picture Tells A Story, Don’t It?

November 23, 2011

A picture doesn’t lie, or so they say, but we know better. A wine shouldn’t lie either, but again, we all know better. I would like to think that wine is like an old-school photojournalistic document of a place in time - a pure, unmolested representation of a vine’s interaction with nature’s rhythms. But just as a photographer can choose to approach a subject from a unique angle, or from their point of view, a winegrower must also decide with which point of view to approach the farm and the cellar. But how do we know what is “true” or “pure,” or what that even means?

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