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1 Even in high season, tractors are more common than tour buses, and visitors can pop into almost any vineyard and taste rare vintages with the vintners themselves.

2 Mountain runoff allows vintners to apply just as much irrigation as the vines may need.

3 But hobnobbing with the vintner and chef elite is the festivalgoer’s favorite pastime, and getting face to face with the 2014 Luminary of the Year, Paul Draper of  Ridge Vineyards in California, will cost you.

4 Or else there’s the tech giant or medical guru who is parlaying his large fortune into a smaller one by buying into the utopian ideal of the vintner’s lifestyle.

5 Mr. Franzia angered Napa Valley vintners for labeling his wine a Napa product, even though it was only bottled there.

6 And though the movie’s loose, sampling style can leave regions and varieties poorly differentiated, its real stars are the vintners.

7 In traditional winemaking, for instance, the vintner is mainly dependent on the natural world for the quality of the wine.

8 The wines come from New York state vintners, who will talk about their offerings and lead guided tastings.

9 Experience with a particular vineyard is also key, because then a vintner can take better aim at a particular style for the resulting wine.

10 And that heady conviction had only a little to do with the wines that Mr. Pereira, a vintner in this enchanted region of northern Portugal, had just had me sample.

11 “It’s a great variety. It’s very versatile,” said South African vintner Ken Forrester.

12 The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats.

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13 In a fickle northern climate such as Champagne, France, where the technique was perfected over centuries, vintners cannot count on producing a high-quality vintage-dated wine every year.

14 Brent Sloan, the owner and vintner of Rapport Wines, in Napa Valley, visited Lucky Palace for the first time last year.

15 A vintner in Jarama reminded soldiers to “care for the grapes! They suffer when you hit them.”

16 Producing world-class wines takes decades, and by the vintners’ own admission, their vintages are a work in progress.

17 The even ripening makes the vintner’s work a bit easier.

18 They hadn’t spoken in six months, Mr. Momtazi said, and when they did, the vintner said he hung up the phone in frustration.

19 In the wine industry, there are only a few dozen black vintners across the country, about 20 of them in Napa Valley.

20 Skeptics question how a state like Arizona, more associated with saguaros than Sangiovese, can produce wine, but vintners here say rain and frost are their greatest foes.

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