Solid D
08-24-2006, 02:30 PM
Not exactly "new" news but there are few new details here:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/columnists/etijerina/stories/MYSA082406.03B.Around_Town.2cfb5eb.html
Edmund Tijerina: Popovich partners with winery to produce his own private label
Web Posted: 08/23/2006 11:30 PM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio's newest winemaker: noted oenophile Gregg Popovich.
The Sept. 30 issue of Wine Spectator includes an item that Popovich has signed on as a partner in A to Z Wineworks, a winemaker in Oregon that specializes in Pinot Noir priced under $20.
As part of the deal, the winery will bottle a limited-release 2004 Pinot Noir called Rock & Hammer — exclusive to the Spurs coach.
The magazine said he plans to share his private label wine with basketball friends and donate some bottles to charity.
Rock and what?
The name for Pop's wine comes from a quote by Jacob Riis, the writer, photographer and social reformer in early 20th-century New York City.
From Riis: "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before."
Sounds like a good coaching philosophy, too.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/columnists/etijerina/stories/MYSA082406.03B.Around_Town.2cfb5eb.html
Edmund Tijerina: Popovich partners with winery to produce his own private label
Web Posted: 08/23/2006 11:30 PM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio's newest winemaker: noted oenophile Gregg Popovich.
The Sept. 30 issue of Wine Spectator includes an item that Popovich has signed on as a partner in A to Z Wineworks, a winemaker in Oregon that specializes in Pinot Noir priced under $20.
As part of the deal, the winery will bottle a limited-release 2004 Pinot Noir called Rock & Hammer — exclusive to the Spurs coach.
The magazine said he plans to share his private label wine with basketball friends and donate some bottles to charity.
Rock and what?
The name for Pop's wine comes from a quote by Jacob Riis, the writer, photographer and social reformer in early 20th-century New York City.
From Riis: "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before."
Sounds like a good coaching philosophy, too.