How do Europeans plant their vineyards?
I remember going with probably one of the great icons that they will carve stone monuments for, Anre’ Jeanre who made wines at Romanée Conti, and his wines. And his wines today sell for about six thousand dollars a bottle. And I spent time with him and he had these huge hands that looked like baseball gloves. They were just huge. And had all the character that showed you that he knew. And I asked him, ‘why did you do what you did? The way you plant the vines on the hillside. It’s like a mish-mash. Just this total disarray. Where as in California we have things neatly planted. And we want to save the hillside and we plant them a certain long ways, so the water runs down, and doesn’t destroy the hillside. And you can get a tractor through.’ He said, ‘you know my dream was to be an airplane pilot. Because I wanted to soar on a bi-plane and just whatever. And I learned the wind currents. And I watched the way the birds fly and I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to be like that.’ And then
