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Feature Article
Since releasing their first bottling of Pinot Noir in 1981, David Graves and Dick Ward (founders of Saintsbury) have been amongst the leading producers of Carneros Pinot Noir.
Making Pinot the Saintsburyian Way
“Over a lot of years, Carneros has been driven by people who were somewhat backward in their winemaking philosophies and therefore, the region has not lived up to its potential. Some people think it’s a Pinot backwater and it’s clearly not.”~ David Graves, Saintsbury founder
by
Alan Goldfarb
October 3, 2006
David Graves and Dick Ward are like a married couple who have been together a very long while. They finish each other’s sentences and correct each other’s faux pas. In a discussion of when they started getting fruit from the Lee Vineyard in the Carneros AVA, Graves says he thinks it was 1982. Ward is quick to interrupt, “No, it was ’81.” Graves, standing corrected, retorts “Oh yes, we made one barrel.”
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