Montemaggiore

We'd like to introduce you to a member of the Montemaggiore family...

Ciao Patti!

Home:
Menlo Park, California

Birthplace:
Rensselaer, Indiana

Little known fact:
My fancy yeast bread was the grand champion food entry in the Jasper County (Indiana) Fair.

Latest home improvement project:
Installing 12 solar panels generating more than 2KW of electricity

Collection run amok:
Wine corks which exceeded the confines of my cork board and now have taken over an entire wall.

Favorite obscure wine varietal:
Viognier, a white varietal from the Rhône region. Is that obscure enough?

Favorite wine book:
Carnet de Cave by Annick Gaidoz and Damiel Lambert

Favorite Quote:
From Mark Twain, in one of his first stories, Advice to Little Girls: "You ought never to take your little brother's chewing-gum away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to his time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly fair transaction. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster."

Mother's Favorite Quote:
"They used to say that women matured more quickly than men, so that you should choose an older man. But they have found that men never mature, so you might as well get a younger one."

Father's Favorite Quote:
"Don't sweat the 'petty things' and don't pet the 'sweaty things'."