The house
It began just above the glass
Marguerite Voss spent eleven years as a wine sommelier before admitting the truth to herself: the part she loved was the moment before the sip, when the air above the glass told you everything. The wine, frankly, kept getting in the way.
She sold her collection, kept the jars, and went to the mountains. Second Wind now maintains forty harvest sites on four continents, each worked by trained gatherers who seal at origin and carry the jars down by hand. The cellar in Sonoma holds six thousand jars at a constant temperature, for reasons our cellarmaster has asked us not to question.
"People ask what separates our air from the air in their home. Provenance. Also, their air is free, which should tell you something about it." Marguerite Voss, founder and nose emerita
