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Great piece ! Thanks Tom and thanks Clark !

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Thanks, Doug. Clark is an easy interview subject!

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That was a lot of fun :)

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Thanks, Heidi. We are here to please. But as I told Doug, Clark gives great interview...so, it's pretty easy. Thanks for reading.

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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

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Tom...thanks. Clark makes it easy. There are a whole number of really fascinating people in wine who make a point of thinking deeply not just abut wine, but al manner of things. I'm working to suss them out and get them to ramble with me.

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Guess who's coming to dinner? Me, naturally.

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