454: Blending for Beauty with Maggie Harrison

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Harrison is a partner in the Antica Terra winery in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where she is also the winemaker. Maggie also makes the Lillian wines from California fruit.

Maggie discusses her first winery job working at Sine Qua Non, the development of her approach to each step of the winemaking process, and what she sees as the difference between Oregon and California wine areas. She also explains her thoughts on blending wine, and what she is looking for at the blending table and before that at the wine press. Maggie further talks about the particularities of Antica Terra vineyard, and what she has learned working with it.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, man. Maggie Harrison of Lillian and also one of the co-owners of Antica Terra in Oregon.
0:30.0	Hello, how are you?
0:31.0	It's nice to be here, thanks. You grew up in Illinois. I did.
0:36.0	Growing up in the Midwest is really nice because everyone is incredibly earnest and everyone's very serious about the work that they do and it's pretty funny
0:44.9	funny there's a strong sense of sarcasm so as a place of origin is a great place to be
0:50.3	I couldn't live there anymore I find the earnestness actually a little trying and also I don't think that weather is fit for human beings
0:57.0	But being from there and being able to call that my home is actually pretty great.
1:04.5	I was in a congregation that was humanistic Judaism,
1:07.8	which means that we didn't study the Torah
1:10.3	except for it as a symbolic story. It was all about a person's potential, right, that we as
1:18.3	human beings have the potential to just do good work out in the world, whether there's
1:22.4	a law about it or a rule about it
1:24.3	or a dogma, it just meant that within your being
1:28.6	you had the ability to do good work.
1:31.3	And so, you know, he sang a lot of Cat Stevens and Barry Manilow.
1:34.8	It's a real small little sect of being at you.
1:38.0	What were you like as a kid? I liked arts and crafts and I ran around I played field hockey I liked
1:46.4	chin guards I have synesthesia and I'm still synesthetic you know what they say is that most kids are when they're
1:54.3	born and then there's nothing to reinforce it and so it actually diminishes over
1:58.0	time and so I didn't realize until I was much older I just thought everyone had a
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