How to pronounce “viti” in English

viticulturists in California came to believe that they had to water their vines in a very regular pattern.

Vitiligo is not contagious and it's not life threatening, but it is psychological warfare.

has vitiligo and he's had it all his life. And he almost stopped acting because he had this, so what you're doin' is a good thing; don't stop doin' that; just don't stop."

This in viticulture is a huge difference.

And although this viticulturist is no longer with us, I'm actually-- I always remember him, because he taught me something.

that have vitiligo and many of them have told me that seeing me unafraid to be in the public

I-I got vitiligo when I had a job in Kentucky. I got a job in New York and hid that I had

skinny on vitiligo and-and-and everyone of 'em asked about Michael Jackson.

instead of putting money into the viticulture, into the vines, into the wine where all that money belongs?

And I was talking to the viticulturist in charge.

And so what we see with American winemakers and viticulturalists as is to forget about modeling themselves

So he planted this vineyard despite the fact that all his viticulturalists said grapes will never ripen here.

it is it's essentially been an adventure in unbridled viticultural id.

Now one to two percent of the world population has vitiligo, that's about 40 to 50 million;

So if you're dealing with a health challenge or vitiligo, live your life; just make sure you have little fun along the way.

But-but he was really just covering the vitiligo.

'nother set of interviews where people wanted to just talk about vitiligo, and-and hopefully one day people will stop-stop asking me because it's understood; or even better, even better,

It can be something that's easily defined as a disease like vitiligo or it can be something

actually ask me, "Is that vitiligo? Is that the same thing Michael Jackson has? I have

Lee Thomas: There is a disease, not vitiligo.

bumped into a friend of mine who's a professor in the department of viticulture geneology and I said Andy you're going to have to help me. He said

And now, it's got the Department of Viticulture and Enology, but that was once a dry town.

And I told a friend of mine, who was a graduate student in the viticulture and enology department at UC Davis, about this,

When I'm talking about biodynamic farming, I'm talking about synchronizing the viticultural process with the natural cycles of the plants and of nature,

And this is a recent article that we published about Malbec in "The American Journal of the Viticulture and Technology." And this made me really proud.

But I think the thing for me that I always try to remember is where we are with viticulture, now, with grape growing, is so exponentially farther

my face without makeup. I have a disease called vitiligo. I was diagnosed with it about a

Lee Thomas: You know, you look at my face and you look at a disease like vitiligo which

I took my whole lunch break the day I-I was completely diagnosed saying, "This is vitiligo;

people in a lot of countries. There are still countries on this globe that think vitiligo

to take the American perspective in particular, it's leftist ideology that has vitiated the New York Times and, and Hollywood

And we, I hope, should all be moving us as much as we can toward organic viticulture

However, an awful lot of very, very good wine producers have adopted biodynamic viticulture, because it does seem to result in vines and soil that

So, one of the things I'm gonna be doing this fall is going to Texas and collecting wild Vitis berlandieri and dissecting out those seeds and then rooting those seeds.

got a boo-boo?" So I stood straight up and I go, "No, it's not a boo-boo, I have vitiligo.

Lee Thomas: Another thing, another thing I end up talkin' about a lot is-is Michael Jackson. He had the disease vitiligo; he talked about different venues and for some reason

and to Martin Bashir in two different interviews that he has so much other stuff going on that he said, "I have vitiligo," and the next sentence was, "So you have sleepovers."

And I go, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah." I go, "I have a disease called vitiligo." He goes, "Vitiligo, I know what that is." He goes, "It turns you completely,"

that not only African-Americans but there's a large Indian population. There's one city in India specifically that has a large portion of their population that has vitiligo. And

My boss is the news director, my direct boss. And I go, "No. She's, they've been very supportive." She said, "Have any of your co-workers said that you need to quit because you have vitiligo?"

I love him. There's nothing I can do. He could crush me like a bug without even thinking." "Second, he's off his rocker. The guy had a disease. Michael Jackson had vitiligo. He