Upstairs in the winery office are two classic wood desks and unvarnished alder floors.
The crop volumes in the vineyard have to be lower to achieve ripeness and the thin-skinned grape needs to be handled gently in the winery.
Andy Erickson, of Screaming Eagle winemaking fame, has been the consulting winemaker at Ovid and played an essential role in the winery and cellar design.
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Once in the winery, the grapes are fermented with the yeasts on their own skins and with as little manipulation as possible--no fining or filtration, or acidification or de-acidification, or added sugar to boost alcohol or machines to reduce it.
The windows in both the winery and the house, designed by an architect in Arizona, are made from steel and dwarf their French counterparts.
Southcorp has already invested with a U.S. partner in the Seven Peaks winery in Edna Valley on the coast of central California and is starting a 200-hectare vineyard of its own not far away.
And, in no small quibble, the winery pricing is also in the affordable luxury range, a key factor.
At the Khareba winery in the Alazani Valley, the harvest is under way.
Mr. Graves took on the Clos Pegase winery in the late 1980s, after winning the competition staged by owner Jan Shrem in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Wine Tour Urbano currently takes place in the historic Monserrat district, offering tour participants the opportunity to taste velvety pinot noirs by a Patagonian winery in the lantern-lit cloisters of a 1700s Jesuit church or rich malbecs by a Mendoza bodega at a frescoed, 19th-century pharmacy.
Lucas Winery got together with three New York consumers and the Swedenburg Winery in Middleburg, Virginia to challenge the ban.
These Swiss minimalists made their mark in America last year with the Dominus winery in Yountville, California.
He left Beringer Blass in 2004 and went to work for Quintessa, a high-profile winery in the Oakville district of Napa, for a few years.
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Governor, he does have a few small businesses to his name, including his latest venture, Cade Winery, which is the greenest winery in California.
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In one way, Vineland is fortunate: Since the winery had sold legitimately in China before Nanjing popped up, it had legal grounds to sue for trademark infringement in the PRC.
Chef Matteo Bergamini will prepare a multi-course dinner paired with a selection of wines from La Querciola Winery in the Barolo region.
In 2001, Mr. Botham joined with Mr. Willis to launch a Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz made by Mr. Merrill's winery in the McLaren Vale.
Even if a New Yorker visited the winery in person, New York law banned it from shipping a case of wine back to the customer's New York apartment.
Tiaras aren't the only precious metal you'll find in this castle: the Belhurst Estate Winery has won more than 100 medals for its wines.
However, because of ongoing legal battles over wine shipping rights, the stakes are raised in importance because enhanced restrictions in winery shipping coupled with an unwieldy and unfriendly distribution channel could mean the death knell for an entire classification of wineries.
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It's currently the fourth-largest winery in Israel, with four different labels and vineyards in key regions like the Golan Heights, the Judean Hills and Upper and Lower Galilee.
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They have several other facilities and opened the Caymus winery in 1972.
Though the urban winery trend blossomed in East Bay cities such as Oakland, Alameda and Emeryville, in the mid 1990s, the emergence of San Francisco wineries has happened mostly over the last decade, explained Bryan Kane, co-founder and winemaker at Winery SF on Treasure Island, which is connected to downtown San Francisco via the Bay Bridge.
Except the crush was at a new winery on Varick Street in lower Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
Also owns a vineyard and winery in Stellenbosch, the Napa Valley of South Africa, and an extensive modern and contemporary art collection.
Krug gives the reserve wines a prominent pride of place, employing reserves from six to 10 different years in this bottling, according to the winery.
It is the flagship winery of the Wagner family, which has been involved in California wine making for five generations and well over a century.
The runaway vintage is quite a feat for the Casella winery, founded by two Italian immigrants in 1969, which only recently was selling wine to the company that's now its main competitor, Southcorp, the Sydney-based giant.
Dana (pronounced DAH-nah) bottles wines from three distinctive vineyards, each vinified in its own winery-within-the-winery.
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