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Smith Madrone Winery, Napa: Current Releases (Vinography)
There are more legends, stories, fairytales, and fables than anyone could
count that all involve some guy up on a mountainside somewhere. Sometimes a
hermit, sometimes a wizard, sometimes a troll -- sometimes just an old man who
went to sleep under a tree for a long, long time. No matter what the story,
there's always something a little different about the guy on the mountain,
something that is both scary and alluring at the same time.
Stu Smith might be living out yet another version of one of these tales. The
fact that Stu sports a big gray and white beard under a wizened and kindly
face helps to reinforce the possibility that he might belong in some ancient
tale. His start as a winemaker certainly sounds like it belongs in a storybook
somewhere: a lone hiker in the early Seventies, stomping through the forests
on the mountainside above St. Helena discovers the remains of ancient
vineyards and is struck then and there by inspiration.
In deciding to purchase that long forgotten parcel of land, and turn it again
into a vineyard, Smith began a forty-year odyssey as a pioneer, an iconoclast,
and what ...
