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Some people collect stamps or play guitar. I put various juices in buckets and wait for them to turn into alcohol.

It started a few years ago when She Who Crinkles Her Nose at Me (or Lauren, as she's known to others) visited a few vineyards on the central coast. That place where Sandra Oh worked in Sideways, etc etc etc.



I got back to Los Angeles and got on the Google, looking up wines and wine making, finally ordering a kit from EC Kraus and starting a Pinot Noir last summer. As with my other preferred activities (photography and filmmaking) wine making requires buying a lot of really awesome gear, and is both technical and artistic. Also, the hobby basically consists of long stretches of doing nothing, punctuated by bursts of doing slightly more than nothing.

I'll work this week to recap the creation of my first three wines, as well as a mead sitting in the parlour closet and the beer sitting on the kitchen countertop.