The Four Horsemen of Wine’s Apotheosis
2022-08-01
New post on Wine Saves Lives! on the wonderful viticultural and philosophical challenge to create balanced wines.
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Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine
by Steven Kent Mirassou
Hardcover – June 2021
Steven Kent Mirassou received his BA in American Literature from the George Washington University and his MA in Literature from NYU. He was born in the Salinas Valley and grew up in San Jose and Los Gatos before going east to college. Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine is his first book.
Mirassou started his wine career in sales but found his true passion after moving into the production side of the business in 1996. Steven has made the highest rated wines from the Livermore Valley, is a founder of the Mount Diablo Highlands Wine Quality Alliance, and the President of the Livermore Valley Wine Growers Association.
Steven has four adult children, April Coffey, Aidan Mirassou, Katherine Mirassou, and Sara Mirassou. He lives in Livermore, CA with his wife, Beth Murray Mirassou, and their two dogs
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How Time Affects Wine Aromas
2022-07-14
Here is my latest post in Wine Saves Lives! In it, I write about the effects of time on the aromas in wine. I hope you enjoy!
The Texture of Sharing
2022-06-28
I just published a post on the crucial importance of Hospitality. Please let me know what you think of it. If you are interested in more original, long-form writing like The Texture of Sharing, think about subscribing to my substack newsletter – Wine Saves Lives!
Soil
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More than a perfect spot to grow important grape varieties well, Ghielmetti, or Out From Land, as it came to be called by my family, became the center of a vision for living that captivates to this day. Nestled in the 100 acres of vines is an olive grove of 111
Stove
2021-12-02
“The genius of the best wine and food is the seemingly effortless way in which complicated and disparate ingredients harmonize a series of notes into an irreducible and unrepeatable song. No matter how many components are in the dish or how many different grape varieties are in a blend, there
Harvest
2021-10-29
The purest day is a day without hands. Face clean, Numbers – reliquary abstraction. Blankness is blessed, and it unwinds to ancient time. Below the beat of clock, deaf to appointment, to hunger, to anticipation. The end comes when we are told; Foretelling is for fools. Harvest.
I Dream of the Pruning Shear
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I dream of the pruning shear. And the wood unmoored, And the fulgent buds as they fall. I come upon a hand of shading fingers Where one will suffice, A crone’s polydactyly. The chink of shear, and the weep at the reaping. The blood tastes Of sweet clean water. On
Storytelling
2018-09-14
I believe strongly in listening to and telling stories. Storytelling is how we share (family history), how we teach (family craft), and how we connect emotionally. There are a lot of ways to tell stories, and I will be trying many of them out. Just as I am never quite sure how