It was in Sonoma that I met Dave Homewood, founder of the Homewood Winery (yes, that's him in the photo). As the winery's web page states, Dave single-handedly performs almost all the wine-making duties, which makes Homewood a pretty unique operation. Dave, it follows, is a pretty unique individual. Hire some help, expand production, and extend distribution to local retailers? No, Dave would prefer to keep everything under his own version of totalitarian rule, where he and he alone controls the details, and thereby produces something that is genuinely his own - something that is also not for sale anywhere but at the winery or on the web page. Dave's almost stubborn self-reliance, and his commitment to the purity of something that ultimately bears his name, remind me a little of Daniel Day-Lewis's character in There Will Be Blood. That comparison, coupled with the fact that Dave has a chihuahua that wears a small sweater, propels him into my Fave Five of Daves.
The others:
- Dave from HBO's Flight Of The Conchords. Need some sage advice? Relationships, ethics, social issues - Dave knows all.
- Dave Niehaus, the larger-than-life play by play man for the Seattle Mariners, who was inducted into Major League Baseball's Hall Of Fame earlier this month. Like any longtime fan of the team, I remember vividly where I was when Edgar hit The Double. Twelve years later (gosh!), that call still gives me the hardcore chills.
- Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier. He was an explorer, a soldier, and a politician...and he died in the Battle of The Alamo.
- Dave Brubeck, American-born (actually, Bay Area-born) jazz pianist.
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