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“Ultimately, of course, it is human intervention that turns a landscape into a vinescape. Selection of plant material, methods of cultivation and, perhaps most important, timing of the harvest have everything to do with how the land is expressed in wines. Yet the essence of that luscious Cabernet in your glass is essentially water filtered through volcanic soil and transferred into fruit that ripened slowly and fully in the stony place called Stags Leap. … Aside from the miraculous phenomenon of ripe fruit from bare rock, there’s an ethereal savor of time, millions of years in every sip.”
—Rod Smith, Unlocking the Secrets of Terroir, Los Angeles Times, 9/4/02.
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