harvey steiman at large

A Conversation with a Washington Idea Guy

Posted: Apr 13, 2009 12:46pm ET

Charles Smith kind of sneaked up on the Washington wine industry. The frizzy-haired ex-rock manager had never made wine when he opened the doors on his funky shed of a winery in 2001. Winemaking errors meant that some of his early bottlings were funkier than the shed, but the good ones were startling in their depth and character.

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