This interview with Don Reha, Winemaker at Thornton Winery, was a truly enjoyable conversation.  In the press tour I took with the Temecula Valley Quality Wine Alliance, the one commonality between the participating wineries, aside from their desire to create quality wines, was the ability to articulate their passion creating for good wine.  This quality alone makes me enjoy listening to the interviews repeatedly.  

In this first interview with Don, he explains why he was drawn from Northern California to Temecula  ("down there") and the type of potential he saw.  Five years into his adventure, we're starting to see his vision come to fruition. Perhaps in the next interview he'll prove it in a wine tasting!