Endless Sound Cellars
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The Beginnings
When I started out in the world as a young man, traveling was the thing that propelled me forward.
Living a wandering life was the only thing that mattered to me.
I discovered that almost anyone could volunteer on organic farms all over the country and even across the world, sleep in their hay lofts, work for room and board, and travel almost infinitely.
Finding Love
Then, I fell in love with farming and working the land became the thing that gave me peace. I was happy until one of the farms that I landed on happened to farm grapes.
It existed in Sonoma California with its parched hills and old oaks.
Wine is farmed out of those hills, and for the first time in my entire life I had the privilege of drinking world class wines. I discovered the distinction between love and passion. My passion for wine knowledge is restless, more like a consuming flame.
Demian.
The favorite novel of my early years was the novel Demian by Herman Hesse.
One meaningful quote concerned love: “Love must not entreat or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
That was the way that I felt about traveling and farming, those endeavors were effortless and rich and the further I engaged in them the more I found that they had to teach me.
Finding Passion
I find wine to be distinctly a passion.
I traveled from Sonoma in California to Marlboro in New Zealand to the wine regions of Washington State.
I wanted to learn more and taste more, collecting mentors and joining tasting groups along the way.
A Dangerous Declaration
I will make a dangerous declaration to you:
Any winemaker that claims that his or her wine is phenomenal, or the best in the region/state/world is misleading you.
Every great winemaker that I have learned from along the way is engaged in an obsessive, neurotic, and endless search to make the wine better and better.
All of them were passionate & none of them content.
I’m nOt saying they’re nOt prOud Of their wines, there’s an immense sense Of satisfactiOn Of putting a lifetime Of accumulated wine knowledge into a bOttle, but the jOurney tO a truly fine wine is never Over as lOng as there are still things left tO learn.
A Simple Thing
Wine is the simplest thing in the world: we use yeast to turn grape juice into alcohol.
It is the human palette that is so demanding.
That is why we winemakers engage in this endless search for the perfect wine. It may only happen a few times in a lifetime.
Finding Home.
My winery is a combination of my love and obsession.
I followed the call of the wines and it led me to Olympia and the Puget Sound.
My passion led me to the loves of my life.
The Endless Sound
The name Endless Sound is a reference to the Puget Sound, the body of water near our winery in Olympia, WA.
It’s truly an immense and unique ecosystem, seemingly endless in its waterways and basins.
Ever changing. Restless.
A hard thing to fully comprehend unless you spend an entire lifetime walking the forests and treading the waters.