WineChats: Conversations Over Wine

Brooke Delmas Robertson grows wine on some of the most distinctive ground in the country. SJR Vineyard sits at the southwestern edge of the Rocks District of Milton-Freewater, the only AVA in the United States drawn around a single soil series, where basalt cobbles run hundreds of feet deep and hold the day's heat into the night. Seth sits down with Brooke in the new Delmas tasting space in Walla...

Forty-five minutes north of Seattle, on a southern-facing slope in Stanwood, Larry and Kim Harris grow Pinot Noir that just took Best Red in the Pacific Northwest. Kim grew up on this 100-acre family farm. Larry still practices patent law on top of running the vineyard. They spent two years studying their microclimate with Washington State University before planting in 2011, and thirteen years lat...

Louis Skinner doesn't romanticize winemaking. He's been at it long enough to know that the idea of waiting for "perfect ripeness" is, in his words, the most bullshit explanation he's ever heard. In this debut episode of WineChats, Seth sits down with the winemaker and partner at Force Majeure Vineyards on Red Mountain to talk about obsession, mentorship, and what it actually takes to make wine at...