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"Here's why my mother fell in love with him, she said. She was sitting at the Chinese restaurant, hearing him talk of soil, about the importance of foundation. And she heard the rest. His belief, at the center of his wine-making, that with work, you can give something the strength at the beginning that it needs later on. Before it even knows how it's going to need it."