Be open to all wines; varietals and winemaking styles, regions and AVAs, sub-AVAs, all of it.  How else can you understand a story or an author if you don’t give the entire piece or body of work full consideration?  I last night sipped two Petite Sirahs and a grandiloquent Alexander Valley Cab-centered blend.  Two of my preferred types and producers, vintages and regions, conceded, but still it made me wonder what else is out there and what’s the next unknown I taste— the next enigma, mystery and riddle, palate puzzle, sipped cognition…

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