Really great interview w/ Clark. I visited him at Vinovation some yrs ago and he spent almost 3 hrs w/ me explaining RO and tasting me on some results. At the time, because of RO, he was considered the Devil Incarnate. But, like you, I found him extremely bright & passionate about what he was doing.
I particularly liked his comments on Natural Winemaking & Alice Feiring. His characterization of her has a showman & a narcissist is dead on. She's a fraud. Probably charter subscriber to "Not Drinking Poison".
I particularly liked his comments on Orange/Amber wines and Natural wines. In many people's minds, they are part & parcel of the same cesspool. They are not. Many natural winemakers make skin-contact whites/ViniMacerati (and not very well). But there are a lot of "un-natural" winemakers (and that chasm in between) who are making shockingly good ViniMacerati that age into something really amazing.
Next interviews?? Easy...Darrell Corti & Paul Draper!! Two of the most intellectual folks in the wine biz. I always asserted if they had gone into Physics instead of groceries/winemaking, they'd be Nobel prize winners.
Great piece ! Thanks Tom and thanks Clark !
That was a lot of fun :)
Tom,
Really great interview w/ Clark. I visited him at Vinovation some yrs ago and he spent almost 3 hrs w/ me explaining RO and tasting me on some results. At the time, because of RO, he was considered the Devil Incarnate. But, like you, I found him extremely bright & passionate about what he was doing.
I particularly liked his comments on Natural Winemaking & Alice Feiring. His characterization of her has a showman & a narcissist is dead on. She's a fraud. Probably charter subscriber to "Not Drinking Poison".
I particularly liked his comments on Orange/Amber wines and Natural wines. In many people's minds, they are part & parcel of the same cesspool. They are not. Many natural winemakers make skin-contact whites/ViniMacerati (and not very well). But there are a lot of "un-natural" winemakers (and that chasm in between) who are making shockingly good ViniMacerati that age into something really amazing.
Next interviews?? Easy...Darrell Corti & Paul Draper!! Two of the most intellectual folks in the wine biz. I always asserted if they had gone into Physics instead of groceries/winemaking, they'd be Nobel prize winners.
Tom
Guess who's coming to dinner? Me, naturally.