a winemaker .
And winemakers and beer makers very carefully control their process to get the product they want, and not have a lot of other, nasty, volatile components in there that they
I remember a winemaker in Oregon said, I've got 30, 40, 50 shots at this.
He is also a winemaker and distiller and lectures at the Culinary Institute of America.
So this is our winemaker , Alejandro Vigil.
I had chose the winemaker of the year two weeks after I got there.
I'm actually a winemaker as well.
imprint of the winemaker , where the winemaker is really trying to determine as much as he possibly can.
--So the American winemakers started calling their wines Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, after the grape with which it was made.
That's what winemakers talk about.
And they work with an actual winemaker , and they buy grapes or juice, and everybody gets involved.
And Jacques's cousin is the winemaker at Chavel Blanc.
That's-- or like my winemaker .
and they tasted it with the winemaker and tasted it in context.
And then you put this winemaker , this wine grower, on the cover.
The whole nature of who are winemakers and who are experts in wine is changing.
And so what we see with American winemakers and viticulturalists as is to forget about modeling themselves
And you actually know more than most winemakers about some of the basics about wine.
The thing with grapevines that most winemakers don't want to admit is that they're basically weeds.
They're only as smart as us winemakers and that's not very smart.
What would you give for advice to a vintner winemaker who's just starting out?
The first wine-tasting that we're doing with a winemaker is on say March 25th, and then we're doing also a week later,
So I put it in a frame for my winemaker .
will include perhaps, conversation with the winemaker , perhaps lunch will be included or perhaps--who knows what.
will include perhaps, conversation with the winemaker , perhaps lunch will be included or perhaps--who knows what.
So actually, none of our winemakers could get back home back after the tasting.
And also watching the people I work, our winemakers , who are so inspired by our daily work to make these great Argentine wines,
It's like, oh, the winemaker 's youngest daughter, Shannon, did not like cabs at all.
Yeah, so he's a very talented winemaker .
But then I realized that he had such an amazing palette that he became our head winemaker .
when he was in London after slightly tipsy lunch, getting my winemaker interview done.
L-I-T-T-O-R-A-I. And he was my 2010 winemaker of the year.
But in a notion that you, as a good winemaker , have a responsibility to make a wine that people can actually find and that they can afford.
It's a very cool, hip place with lots of young winemakers doing exciting wines.
But in addition to looking within our own borders for wine, the winemakers here started naming their wines--
He's been working with us since 2002, because he is, to me the winemaker that I've met that best mixes the art and the science of wine making.
And then we're also doing-- we're sort of starting a series of events with winemakers because we have kind of incredible winemakers
And realized, especially, that there was this younger generation of winemakers who were, at first, it seemed, just making interesting side projects
But because they came up in late '70s and early '80s, at a time when they realized that even the great French winemakers also made table wine.