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Segue Cellars | Mill Valley, CA 94941 |
www.seguecellars.com
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(415 ) 389-1183
Fax : 415 389-1177 Email: info@seguecellars.com |
What happens when a writer falls madly in love with a grape? Segue Cellars. For three decades or more I’ve written about everything from a social history of cotton to a Hollywood screenplay about a steamy college romance. But I really didn’t know much about lust until I more or less fell head over heels into a tank of fermenting grape juice. I was interviewing a guy named Greg La Follette, one of the best Pinot Noir winemakers in our nation, if not our galaxy. While driving through winding back-country roads he pulled both hands off the steering wheel of his 300,000-mile Volvo station wagon so he could sketch the flow of phenols through a Pinot wine grape. With great passion as we veered and swerved, Greg swore to me, "Nothing caresses your mouth. Steve, like Pinot Noir." He said it with such conviction it sounded like a religious vow. When I tasted his wine—feral, delightfully complex and unruly and pure and rambunctious and elegant and suave and brash all at once—I was hooked. A home winemaker for many years, I'd been possessed by the notion for some time of making my own commercial Pinot Noir--the ultimate sensuous wine encounter, to me, when done exactly right--but I knew I needed to be in close proximity to a microbiologist with the soul of a poet. Pinot Noir is the world's most finicky, duplicitous grape. Passion matters; but nothing matters quite so much as knowing how to neutralize stinky yeast cells when the grape When Greg signed on as my designated troubleshooter, I took the plunge. |
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Winemaker Stephen Yafa |
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2007 Pinot Noir
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Regular as of 01/26 |
Order Direct Online Phone: (415 ) 389-1183 Fax: (415).389-1177 |
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2007 Segue Filigreen Vineyard Pinot Noir
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Regular Discounts at seguecellars.com as of 02/13 |
Order Direct Online Phone: (415 ) 389-1183 Fax: (415).389-1177 |
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