Born in San Francisco, Mr. Williams moved to the Russian River Valley after his father died.
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Russian River and Allagash release their sour beers in few-hundred-bottle runs with little warning besides a tweet.
Near the headwaters of the Russian River in Redwood Valley, California sits a vineyard that has been producing Petite Sirah since 1955.
Travellers who want to create a wine-tasting-and-salmon-spawning tour should head to portions of the Russian River in Sonoma and the Navarro River in Mendocino in the fall.
Pinot needs a cooler climate than Cabernet, and the Russian River funneled the cool Pacific air into this picturesque valley, with its highly variable geology.
WSJ: How Burt Williams Became Pinot's Patron Saint | On Wine by Jay McInerney
Anyone who thinks California can only produce rich Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot should look north of San Francisco to the Anderson Valley, Russian River Valley and Carneros.
He bought a house in Forestville, in the Russian River Valley, in 1962, and a couple of years later got some Zinfandel grapes from a neighbor who couldn't sell them.
WSJ: How Burt Williams Became Pinot's Patron Saint | On Wine by Jay McInerney
In 1987, the 1985 Williams Selyem Rochioli Vineyard Pinot Noir won top honors at the California State Fair and the little garage winery was suddenly above the radar, as was Russian River Pinot.
WSJ: How Burt Williams Became Pinot's Patron Saint | On Wine by Jay McInerney
Yet in many ways Mr Weinberger, a stalwart though he was of the Bohemian Grove, where the revolutionary Reaganauts gathered by California's Russian river each July for male bonding, was a politician of the old school.
City winemakers pride themselves on their relationships with expert growers, from the Napa and Russian River Valley, to the Mendocino Coast, all the way down to the wine growing regions around the towns of Paso Robles and Santa Barbara.
In no particular order, our favorites included the fresh and citrusy 2011 Paul Hobbs CrossBarn Sonoma Coast, the lively 2011 Chamisal Stainless Central Coast, the complex 2010 Ramey Russian River Valley as well as the elegant 2010 Etude Carneros, the 2011 Williams Selyem Unoaked Chardonnay and the 2011 Mer Soleil Silver.
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His attachment to the locality is so strong that he hopes eventually to open a bar in the tiny village, which is an impressively humble aspiration for someone who is also about to open a brewpub in New York in collaboration with Teo Musso (Baladin), Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head) and Vinnie Cilurzo (Russian River).
We finished with the first two vintages of Burt's new wine (crafted after the expiration of his noncompete clause), the 2008 and 2009 Morning Dew Ranch Pinot, from a vineyard he planted in the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, a very promising region for Pinot that, when he first bought in a decade ago, was almost as obscure as the Russian River Valley had been.
WSJ: How Burt Williams Became Pinot's Patron Saint | On Wine by Jay McInerney
All that remains unresolved is a small stretch along the Amur River near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where three small river islands, no more than 12 sq km in total, are not yet covered by treaty.
Interfax reported the Volganeft was carrying fuel oil from the Russian city of Samarrah on the Volga River to an oil terminal in Ukraine.
By mid-week, Russian forces had taken up positions along the Terek river, and some were within artillery range of Grozny.
Compare, he suggests, a shade smugly, Narva, Estonia's virtually all-ethnic-Russian town on the north-eastern border, with Ivangorod, just across the river in Russia.
Around 35 bodies have been recovered out of the River out of the 42 on board, including 8 crew members, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Emercom.
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Across the river from Montgomery County, Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va. offers Latin, Russian, Japanese, thermodynamics and artificial intelligence.
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