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So I do not remember ever seeing anything on exactly what brought you folks into the great obsession of winemaking. I am sure that there are some really good stories out there...
I'll go first..
I got into winemaking through birth. I come from some 10 generations of winemakers in Hungary. My father's was the last generation to actually work the Hungarian vinyard (in the Balaton region).
When the communists took power, all of my family's possessions and holdings were taken. Can you imagine that? Everything that you own simply taken from you for no reason. My family was lucky enough to have ONE relative that was a party member and he managed to claim the vinyard back from those commie devils. Well, at least the vinyard is still in the family. I have visited it many times.
I ended getting into winemaking due mostly to my father. I would listen for hours to his stories about wine and winemaking. When a friend of my (30 years ago) said that he belonged to a group that makes wine, I jumped at the chance to join in.
I learned winemaking in stages.
Stage 1 - Listen to the old timers tell how they used to make wine.
Stage 2 - learn and study under an actual chemist (to unlearn a lot of what the old timers taught me).
Stage 3 - learning by doing (and correcting mistakes)
When I started up my own small "facility", my father almost plotzed!
The rest of the story is the typical "Obsession Run Amuk".
So I do not remember ever seeing anything on exactly what brought you folks into the great obsession of winemaking. I am sure that there are some really good stories out there...
I'll go first..
I got into winemaking through birth. I come from some 10 generations of winemakers in Hungary. My father's was the last generation to actually work the Hungarian vinyard (in the Balaton region).
When the communists took power, all of my family's possessions and holdings were taken. Can you imagine that? Everything that you own simply taken from you for no reason. My family was lucky enough to have ONE relative that was a party member and he managed to claim the vinyard back from those commie devils. Well, at least the vinyard is still in the family. I have visited it many times.
I ended getting into winemaking due mostly to my father. I would listen for hours to his stories about wine and winemaking. When a friend of my (30 years ago) said that he belonged to a group that makes wine, I jumped at the chance to join in.
I learned winemaking in stages.
Stage 1 - Listen to the old timers tell how they used to make wine.
Stage 2 - learn and study under an actual chemist (to unlearn a lot of what the old timers taught me).
Stage 3 - learning by doing (and correcting mistakes)
When I started up my own small "facility", my father almost plotzed!
The rest of the story is the typical "Obsession Run Amuk".