That's definitely something you can't simulate in practice.

Taylor is our emotional leader. She is the heart and soul of this team. It was tough to lose her because she brings so much to the team. I thought Morgan played well, but it's tough to ask somebody to play the whole game without a break.

Dan is the only person that talks faster about pinot than I do.

It's part of the mystery of the grape. I thought there would be more of a formula, but there isn't. I have a lot of respect for the winegrowers in the Russian River Valley.

It's an incredible opportunity. Most of the wines that these guys make are already sold out, so it's not about driving sales. It has to do with this incredible wine, and what makes one so different from another. It has to do with why people are driven to make it, and why we can't get enough. Really, it's pinot for pinot's sake.

It was a lucky shot. But we've been on the wrong end of luck for a long time. It's about time luck went our way.

There wasn't anyone near the shooters. They're too good of a shooting team to give open shots to. We just laid down. That erased everything we'd done in the first half.

This is a dream come true for me. Bill Harlan is to California wine making what the Steadman Hawkins Research Foundation is to orthopedic research. He brought the world California 'cult cabernets'. In my 12 years in this business, I've never even been able to taste the wines that we are pouring at this event, let alone serve them.

Fog is a huge factor with the creation of pinot noir in the Russian River Valley.

When people speak of his grapes, it's always with a sense of reverence.