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Edmunds St. John

"Two thousand ten is a terrific vintage for what I'm after," Steve Edmunds told me. "The cool season meant lots of hang time without sugars running away, and good acid retention," he went on, adding that "this means there was plenty of time for aromatic and flavor development on the vine." He noted that there was no rush to harvest in 2010 and that sugars weren't as high as they were in 2009, which suits his style. At the end of our annual sit-down in Berkeley Edmunds blind-tasted me on a bottle of his 1995 Story Vineyard zinfandel, a lovely, fully evolved wine that offers an array of red fruit and floral qualities, with a seamless texture and subtle finishing spiciness. This led haphazardly to a discussion of whether or not most winemakers are truly wine lovers and the impact that that makes on their wines. Edmunds, who started his wine career as a retailer "a really, really long time ago, like before most of the guys who buy my wines were even born," was quite voluble on the subject. "Look," he said, "if you don't truly love wine then you're pretty much bound to make them in 2-D. To get to 3-D you've got to really love wine."

From Focus on California's North Coast (May 2012) by Stephen Tanzer

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