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>>Erik: Let`s talk about the Pinot grape. The one you have done a pretty good job with
over the last couple decades. Your first couple forays into making pinot noir were experimental
to say the best.
>>Patty: Oh, of course. When you first start winemaking, it is rudimentary. It is very
much about the process you follow to do it. With time is when you really can hone your
stylistic endeavor. With that it is a whole lot of eliminating what you don`t like. And
so consequently, over the years and one of the things people don`t realize about wine
making, you`ve one chance over a very small period of time during the year to do it. You
farm in relationship to how you are going to vinify the wine. We can take all these
different blocks and vineyard sites and dissect them and farm them for the end point, which
is the wine. So really you are starting from the vineyard and moving into the process with
winemaking. You have one chance, one chance to pull it off. Every decision you make for
wine for that vintage is critical. What people don`t realize is that what you have. All this
stuff goes on throughout the year for this small period of time. That`s where, over the
years, you hone your style. Style is very, very important to pinot noir. What you do
to achieve that is in that moment.