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Behind the Scenes

Issue: March 31, 1997

March 31, 1997 Making Wine, Changing Lives By Jonathon Raffes There's a joke in my profession--I'm a psychologist--that the superego is dissoluble in alcohol. It comforted me as I teetered across the 2-inch lip of a 1,500-gallon fermentation tank 10 feet off the ground and one slip away from total immersion in gurgling Zinfandel, delicious to bathe in, quicker than therapy.

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