It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.