The Old Field Vineyard Transcript
Written By: Anonymous on Mon, Nov 27th 2006
Brian Freedman: Here at the old field, and there is an extraordinary history. The land has been in the family at least since 1918, and Perry, you are actually the 5th generation here. What is your role here in the operation?
Perry Weiss: Everything, we do everything, we are four people here, so we do everything from—I prefer to be up in the vineyards. I do, do some some wine-making with my mom and some advertising and design labels, and we work on the website, we do everything for people.
Brian Freedman: You have just finished painting?
Perry Weiss: Yes! Obviously 1:17hide that.
Brian Freedman: That's right, it is not autonomous work, but it is necessary for the production. Yeah. So do you think about that, do you think about the family history here?
Roz Baiz: I do, I do; that's a huge reason why I am taking over this land is because it's an amazing piece of property, and there is so much diversity and it's just -- it is a wonderful thing to actually still have. So, we would never give it up. And this is only the fourth family since the 1600s to be on this property, which is really very extraordinary. So, Perry is absolutely my right hand and he works side by side out in the vineyard. You have to go through the vines about 60 times; each vine gets visited about 60 times every year and it's a year long process.
Brian Freedman:It is a lot of TLC.
Roz Baiz: So, it's a lot of extra time. It's a lot of extra time.
Perry Weiss: So we get very close.
Roz Biaz: Yes, we're very close.
Brian Freedman:Now, did you always expect Perry to take this over one day?
Roz Baiz: No. Actually she left for a long time in the winter time, she would come in the summer.
Brian Freedman:Okay.
Roz Baiz: Now she is here for the winter, so we 2:23 all winter long, and so that's a good thing.
Brian Freedman:Its extraordinary; it is so nice in this age of everyone drinking their mass-produced wines, and all tend to taste the same, we are not going to name names here. But there is a really -- there is a very different field here on the North Fork and I think that, that passion and that history really is reflected in the wines, and this is just another great example of that. So thank you for joining us.
Roz Baiz: Yeah! Thank you.
