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1:51pm — Wine and music in thinking.

As well as how to keep waking early, earlier. This new baby makes it easy, lovingly shoves me to wake early, or just candidly demands I do. Starting tonight with a DCW Sauv B — I mean Clone 809 Chardonnay.u Had it several times, placed order the other day from hospital, and it arrived yesterday of course just when I began my zoom meeting. Ordered a couple bottles of a Pinot and a red blend I remember loving. Miss those vineyard blocks, walking and writing them during lunch, owner Debra telling guests what I did. The tours I’d give, how busy it’d get sometimes. I used to complain when it’d get so crazy, terribly stressful. But I miss it.

Pinot Noir. When was the last…. Yeah, the Sanglier single-vineyard. Not sure if I ever want to make Pinot. Not sure I ever want to make wine, really. OR, yeah I am… I don’t know. MY wine thoughts are everywhere. And I don’t make wine well enough to sell, or I didn’t when I did my last vintage being 2012 when at Kunde. I just want to explore Pinot like any other varietal. And I’m not Pinot-purposed. I’m one of every grape go. If anything Pinot tells me to NEVER stay in one place. Wine lights the wick of madness in me. Pushes me to more music, to more Zen which right now I need with a newborn in the house, me being 41. I’m too old for this I keep saying to myself, for a baby in the house, but here I am. The wine will offer further…