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Bonny Doon Vineyard, General

On Being Incongruent1 or A Very Dry Season

On Being Incongruent ((Bear in mind that while this note is indeed a genuine cri de coeur, things could in fact be much worse (for everyone). The title of this piece could have been “On Being Incontinent.”)) or A Very…

February 6, 2014
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Bonny Doon Vineyard, Winemaking, General

Terroir: My Spiritual Journey (Part 1)

I’m a little nervous about characterizing my quest to produce a vin de terroir—a wine expressive of a specific place—as a “spiritual journey.” Any journey must be grounded in genuine action, but whither forward?

July 22, 2011
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General, Been Doon So Long, Bonny Doon Vineyard, Winemaking

Everybody into the Pool! (The Romance of the Vine)

If one is looking for true originality in a New World wine, grape hybridization may well be the most rational way to proceed. But I have some nagging doubts about the potential brilliance of vinifera hybrids, and what might really be meant by “wine quality.”

May 18, 2011
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Bonny Doon Vineyard, Speeches & Presentations, General

Red Wine, White Wine, Blue Ocean

Real success in the wine business simply may lie in making real wine, and of course having the ability to communicate about this real wine you have somehow achieved.

February 24, 2011
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Winemaking, General, Bonny Doon Vineyard

The Bee’s Knees

Solstice 2010 has come and gone, and the year has started once again to wax, with an auspicious, adumbrating total lunar eclipse to boot, providing an excellent moment to reflect upon what’s behind us, and to look ahead with hope.

January 7, 2011
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Winemaking, Bonny Doon Vineyard

Theme and Variants: Élevage (Raising up) and Getting Doon

When I started making wine, I was little concerned about the future arc of the wine’s narrative; I wanted people to like them, so they would buy them and drink them now. But I have grown to embrace the beauty of natural, unmanipulated wines, and our the new Cigares are quite different from Cigares d’antan, and are capable of aging for a very long time.

December 1, 2010
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Bonny Doon Vineyard, Winemaking, General

On a Mission: The Germ of an Idea

By amplifying the qualities of terroir, and by growing grapes from seeds, we may be able to create a real sensory paradigm shift in how we experience wine.

November 10, 2010
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Speeches & Presentations, Winemaking

At the Grenache Symposium (An Alternative Drinking Party)

There are some problems in pursuing anything approaching a consensus about what constitutes “good” or “great” Grenache. It seems to suffer a bit from the perception that it is a second class citizen, a supporting actor rather than the star cépage. In an age of the cult of personality, of the superstar chef, superstar everything, how is Grenache to comport itself?

September 22, 2010
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Tag Winemaking

On Being Incongruent1 or A Very Dry Season

Terroir: My Spiritual Journey (Part 1)

Everybody into the Pool! (The Romance of the Vine)

Red Wine, White Wine, Blue Ocean

The Bee’s Knees

Theme and Variants: Élevage (Raising up) and Getting Doon

On a Mission: The Germ of an Idea

At the Grenache Symposium (An Alternative Drinking Party)

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