“You learn to like what you have.”
In conversation with Jim Lapsley, wine historian and winemaker.
Writing Napa's History From Inside ItReal conversations with the people who live fermentation, not just study it. In Conversation is where The Fermentalist sits down, unhurried, with the winemakers, brewers, historians, scientists, and makers whose work rarely gets the space to be told in full. These are not press interviews. They are long conversations, held over coffee or in a cellar, about the accidents, obsessions, and decades that built a life around fermentation.
“You learn to like what you have.”
In conversation with Jim Lapsley, wine historian and winemaker.
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