Sitting with Don and Petie Kladstrup is like sitting with a "live"history book.

As complete "happenstance" would have it, they were sitting with M. Huet and heard the most amazing story of survival. A story of survival in a German POW camp, a story of survival through the memory of a glass of wine, the story of pure determination to get back to the vineyard.

At this intersection of history and story telling, the Kladstrups realized there was more out there to learn; that wine is about the story, wine is a binding memory to hang on to, that the human spirit can overcome hanging on the thread of something as soul searching as a taste of that one inspiring vintage.

I stumbled into this conversation as well. While researching the then current aggression by the Azerbajians into Armenian territory and why the invading army would be interested in absconding with 4 Armenian owned wineries, I ordered a copy of "Wine and War"authored by the Kladstrups. I didn't put it down until I was done reading and have gone back to it many times in my pursuit of the meaning of a "honest"glass of wine.

Hear this amazing tale, get a copy of the book, and find the inspiration I have found.