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Reading a fairly recent WS blog by James Laube about winemakers with style reminded me of what Scott has been saying since ’45:

“I don’t make wine for anyone except me.”

“Wait. Woah. Hold on, Hoss,”

I’d say to him.

“How the hell are we supposed to sell wine you only make for yourself?!”

Even before planting the vineyard we had talked about not catering to the critic’s palate, and for sure not rushing after or trying to predict the wine flavour of the day. That wasn’t the point of any of this. But to hear Scott put it out there on the table so, well, matter-of-factly (or egoistically, depending on how one feels AT THE TIME), I was taken aback, made a little nervous.

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