
"Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire, those vituous Bonanzas where soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry."
"I do like to think about the life of a wine, how it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing, how the sun was shining that summer, or if it rained..what the weather was like. I think about all those people who tended the grapes..I love how a wine continues to evolve, how every time I open a bottle it's going to taste different than if I had opened it on any other day. Because a bottle of wine is actually alive; it's constantly evolving.."