Her long blond hair fell down to her shoulders in waves, framing her face with a golden hue reflected from the soft light of the restaurant candle. As she raised the glass to her lips, her perfectly fashioned nose caught the first scent of perfume from the wine and a Mona Lisa smile spread slowly across her angelic face like a sunrise gently inching up over the horizon. Her first sip confirmed what she already knew … her husband had created yet another masterpiece.

The former paragraph confirms two things; first, I should definitely stick to wine writing, and second, some wines are worth looking for. This occurred to me during a recent trip to San Francisco, where I met Kristen Green and her winemaking husband, Jamie Kutch, for dinner one night. I was tasting Kutch’s latest release of pinot noir from California and I knew I wanted to share it with my readers. But there was just one small problem: His wine is hard to find in the D.C. area. Not impossible, but difficult.