So Martin planted 3.25 hectares of grapes, hired a winemaker and got himself bonded as a winery.
So Martin planted 8 acres of grapes, hired a winemaker and got himself bonded as a winery.
In the current climate a winemaker has to travel to wine dinners in order to talk about and promote their wines.
Sullivan, 67, is almost two decades removed from his "SeaFirst" days, and 11 years into his current career as a winemaker.
Did Mr. du Fresne think that oak-free Chardonnay was a winemaker-led change?
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"I really don't need jewelry for a ball, " says Caterina de Renzis Sonnino, a winemaker who resides at her family's 17th-century castle in Tuscany.
He was no expert but had learned a little something about wine at his previous job working as a pool boy at a winemaker-run hotel.
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It is verboten in most parts of the world for a winemaker to add cane sugar to his grape juice, but no such rule applies to tequila.
But fundamentally, they look at their game as a fine product and the craft of making it great is something they take seriously, just like a winemaker does.
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The earlier wines didn't reveal a lack of winemaking talent the 1978 Cabernet ("when we didn't have a winemaker, " said Mr. Shafer) was still bright, as was the 1985.
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And unlike Chardonnay, fine Pinot Gris is not "a winemaker's wine" that can make up with cellar cosmetics (like aging in charred oak barrels and secondary fermentations) what it lacks coming in from the vineyard.
Jernnard, who is from La Rochelle, on the west coast of France, is a retired winemaker who was on a layover from France and was changing planes to his final destination in West Palm Beach, Florida, said Philadelphia Inspector Joseph Sullivan.
But for a master winemaker like Biyela, wine is much more than that.
Eat lunch at Konoba Roki's ( rokis.hr), a rural retreat owned by a local winemaker, where specialties include smoked eel and octopus under peka.
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"This is an unfair process which will bring no benefits to either of the countries, " said Ivica Matosevic, a Croatian winemaker from the Istria peninsula shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.
Ernst Loosen, a top winemaker in Germany's Mosel region, home to some of the most famous and most aromatically intense Rieslings in the world, has long acknowledged English as a necessary marketing tool and has put English words on his labels for years.
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Their first winemaker developed a drinking problem, and when John Shafer finally convinced his son, by then a graduate of UC Davis's viticulture program, to take over as winemaker, the cellar was in abominable shape, full of mold, spoiled wine and a bacterial taint called Brettanomyces, which spoiled their 1981 vintage.
By 1969, the partners decided they needed a full-time winemaker and turned to Mr. Draper, a 33-year-old Stanford grad who had been making wine in Chile. (Long story.) Although he grew up on a farm in Illinois, Mr. Draper was a multilingual epicurean who'd spent time in the vineyards of France and Italy by the time he arrived at Ridge.
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Happiness these days can be defined as a former banker turned winemaker who contemplates Wall Street's meltdown from a safe distance, while savoring a glass of his own Cabernet Franc.
They worked with a prestigious French winemaker whose name (and Parker ratings) could have sold wine on its own.
The family made the decision to cherry pick about 5% from diverse sections of the vineyard and put the grapes under the care of A-List winemaker Francoise Peschon.
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Recently, over dinner with a young French winemaker who had worked in both New Zealand and Bordeaux, our discussion took us onto the subject of where we thought the world's greatest wines were produced.
There's a cult of the superb, small and artisanal, people like winemaker Manfred Krankl, and a drumbeat of demand for the enduring and recession-proof, like the jewelry of Fulco di Verdura.
The winemaker here was a local strawberry farmer before he got into the grape, so he understands the land.
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Eyrie Vineyards in McMinnville, Ore. claims it typically sells out of its meunier in only ten days, though one year it all disappeared in a single weekend, says winemaker Jason Lett.
Eyrie Vineyards in McMinnville, Oregon claims it typically sells out of its meunier in only ten days, though one year it all disappeared in a single weekend, says winemaker Jason Lett.
Popular Facebook groups like "Moms Who Need Wine" and " OMG I So Need a Glass of Wine or I'm Going to Sell My Kids" have tens of thousands of fans, inspiring one winemaker to create a label of wine especially for stressed-out moms.
The celebrated 43-year-old restaurateur (with Mario Batali, a force behind Babbo and Del Posto, among others), winemaker and TV personality ("Master Chef") had long lived a calorie-rich high life when he dedicated himself to distance running, completing a New York City Marathon and shedding more than 50 pounds along the way.
But sipping a wine made by a free-thinking, radical American winemaker is definitely appropriate.
Years ago, when I worked at a winery in New Zealand, the winemaker there would often receive samples from other wineries looking to sell him juice or finished wine in bulk.
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