Segue Cellars

Segue Cellars	Mill Valley, CA 94941	www.seguecellars.com
(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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Red ------------- ---	2007 Pinot Noir Appellation: Russian River Valley Winemaker: Stephen Yafa My '07 Russian River Blend in depth and smoothness resembles my first release in ’05. To achieve the same balance , I tasted wines from more than more than two dozen Russian River vineyards, and selected three whose soft tannins , layers of dark fruit and bright acidity dance together across the palate and down the hatch. Question? Comment? info@seguecellars.com Visit: www.seguecellars.com	$42.00 Regular as of 01/26	Email Order Direct Online Phone: (415 ) 389-1183 Fax: (415).389-1177
Red ------------- ---	2007 Segue Filigreen Vineyard Pinot Noir Appellation: Alexander Valley Winemaker: Stephen Yafa Produced from 100% biodynamically grown grapes: no herbicides, pesticides, and 100& organic.A limited bottling that is selling out quickly, Segue's Filigreen delivers loads of black fruit, subtle spices and a hint of licorice. Acclaim: Segue's Pinot Noir has received 93 point ratings from Vinfolio, a 92 from the California Connoisseur’s Guide. 110 cases produced Question? Comment? info@seguecellars.com Visit: www.seguecellars.com	$47.00 Regular Discounts at seguecellars.com as of 02/13	Email Order Direct Online Phone: (415 ) 389-1183 Fax: (415).389-1177

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