"What's in a name?" "A picture is worth a thousand words." Whether its Shakespeare or Napoleon Bonaparte, each of these sayings and their origins are particularly relevant when it comes to the name "Genese". Literally translated from french, the word means genesis, or the coming into being of something; the origin. This pinot noir, grown in the vineyard and made with great admiration for the best of Burgundy, represents the origin of a notion...the coming into being of a dream. The waning moon on the label is that picture which is surely worth a thousand words to me. In its simplest terms, it pays homage to the connection between earth & sky that, tended well, yields purity of fruit and flavor in the bottle. But the moon itself, its rotating beauty and yearning nature--often with Venus as its best and most elusive friend, is worth most of those thousand words for me.

Future vintages of Genese will bring new words to the vocabulary of wine through its labels....because it will take literally thousands of words to describe the poetry of wine.