Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is a lot of talk that the small businessman cannot make a mark in these days of high prices, costly credit and crushing competition. Maybe the skeptics and fainthearted should motor to California's green-carpeted Napa Valley and speak with Joe Heitz, entrepreneur...
Many professional critics call steely-haired, iron-willed Joe Heitz, 58, one of America's two or three best wine makers. His 1970 Cabernet Sauvignon knocked off the fabled Château Latour, Château Lafite Rothschild and other French pedigrees in some blind tastings. When French experts sent him a praising letter, he wrote back: "Why don't you lower your import barriers?" The visitor gets the idea that Heitz would have done well even if he were making caps or car wax instead of wine...
...graduates clamor to join Heitz because he is demanding, and he has them do everything. To them, he is a combination of Captain Bligh and Father Flanagan. With Heitz working alongside, they perform every operation: run the crushers and the bottling line, even paint the barrel hoops black because Joe wants them to look neat. His philosophy: "If your place looks like you don't care, your employees won't care. And extreme meticulousness is the most important factor in making fine wine." Or almost any other product...
...frustrated by foot-dragging and the lack of support from their superiors that they complained publicly. A former auditor of the old Federal Energy Administration, Dale Kuehn, went public to describe how his memos suggesting that cases should be "prosecuted with dispatch" were habitually ignored. A DOE investigator, Joe McNeff, went to the subcommittee in June; he said he found in Houston "$1 billion worth of fraud, four auditors, no secretary and no support...
Winterset is one of the few productions that can justly point to its set as a major attraction. Joe Mobilia's looming set is a masterwork, using the Loeb's rather spacious capacity to the fullest. The ominous bridgehead (all action takes place under a bridge or in a house next to the bridge) towers above and the main playing area is both cleverly designed and fully utilized. Chris Stone's lighting design is tremendous, as usual. This is the way the Loeb should be used, at least for sets...