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| | Back to the Roots / Tony Soter, longtime maker of some of Napa Valley's most elite wines, has winnowed down to two ... |
 | | Soter's Etude Carneros Pinot Noirs ($40) are known for their youthful, spicy, deeply flavored fruit character; they're typically rich and toasty, yet with a sense of elegance, with fine-grained tannins and suppleness. |
 | | Soter likes the dichotomy of producing wine in California, where warm, rain-free weather is the norm, and in Oregon, which is much cooler and prone to storms during harvest. |
 | | Soter, who earned a philosophy degree from Pomona College in Claremont and considered a law career before venturing into wine, says he's proud to have mentored a number of Napa Valley winemakers during his career, among them Scott McLeod of Niebaum-Coppola, Greg Brown of T-Vine Cellars and Mia Klein of Selene. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/06/WIGDM2Q6CO1.DTL (2007 words) |
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