Fascinating wine makers

Thought interview at Sandhams Wine Merchants went well... but who knows? Soon find out...
Missed lots of blip opportunities- their treasure trove of a shop would be a good one - hopefully a future blip!! My favourite wine in the world is Chateau Musar from Lebanon's Bekka Valley... purely for its taste originally ("an extraordinay, uncompromising and awesome wine" according to David Williams of the Guardian - see Lebanese wines: a tribute to Serge Hochar
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/18/lebanese-wines-serge-hochar - love the comments section) but since then, so much more... I like unusual, out of the box anything - quality wine from Lebanon fits that! I like unprocessed - the winemaker Serge Hochar (passed away in 2014) was known for his "non-interventionist" style - minimal sulphur and nothing else at all added, and for challenging conventions. And of course the valley has the same name as my daughter! So, I bought a bottle after my interview!
The wine on the left is an organic wine I bought direct from the vineyard in Spain - the gem in a mixed case, all of which I enjoyed immensely, so looking forward to drinking this one at some point... Anyway, noticed Sandhams stocks these Matsu wines as well. Love the pic of the wine maker on the bottle... Feel sure this gentleman is a man in the mould of Serge Hochar...
V's Dad continued to stabilise, almost miraculously. V got her place at college doing BTEC Business sorted so we think that means I can actually see her without fear of breaking any rules or regulations (you can see the parallels with old Mr Hochar- wonder if he has a much younger wife??? - or maybe his love was focused too much on his wine...
Done some more research... clearly a number 8 on the enneagram: "'I want to make the wine my way, and I want it to be known worldwide" (see http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/rip-serge-hochar [though strangely this link won't work - Google Serge Hochar and you can read plenty about this amazing man]). He made his wine right through the civil war in the 80s, and it continues today in the valley with thousands and thousands of Syrian refugees housed in tents (unusually for a wine making area, snow is very frequent).
The Matsu (Japanese for "waiting") wine is called El Viejo... Loco!!