California as a place and California wines as an experience strongly resonate with the American consumer. We need to leverage the unique regions, creativity, ingenuity and break-the-rules approach to life that epitomizes our industry and link it to our wines.

Those outside the industry often do not realize the capital intensity of the wine and grape sector. As the vast majority of holdings are private, often family businesses, the main source of investment capital continues to be private resources, with support from the commercial banking industry.

It made wine tasting and going to Wine Country a great adventure.

I always say shopping anywhere else is shopping, and that shopping at Wegmans is an experience, ... Whenever I go anywhere else, I always say, 'This isn't Wegmans.'

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?

Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

Body experience... is the centre of creation.