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To make wine the way we
do it is both an apparent anachronism and curiously
attractive: in a world where division of labour is the
rule, where most of us do not know how most of the things
that surround us everyday are made, where our food often
travels across the globe before it reaches us, there
exists the possibility to plant a vineyard, grow the
grapes, make the wine, bottle it and bring it to market.
One person cannot usually cover all aspects of that
process completely, but a dedicated group of people
can, and does. Perhaps not surprisingly, the people
one encounters in the pursuit of the next great wine
tend to be individualists, come from vastly different
backgrounds, yet they are usually united in the love
for the product and the making of it.
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