Few winemakers have been as formative in establishing the modern voice of California wine as David Ramey. He teaches us that a great winemaker is an orchestra conductor – a sedulous student of terroir, a loyal and reverent interpreter of the masterful works of nature. As with many of his peers, David’s trajectory toward a … Read More
From up on Pritchard Hill, above the fog line in the Vaca Mountains, east of Napa’s valley floor, Tim Mondavi can tell a story of nearly one hundred years and three generations – now four. Tim’s grandfather, Cesare, an Italian immigrant, first began sourcing grapes in 1919, and made his first wine in Saint Helena … Read More
The curtain rises in the late 2000s on the college town of Middlebury, Vermont. Recent graduate David Dolginow has begun working at Sunrise Orchards in the nearby town of Cornwall, and the Green Mountain State is really beginning to exert its pull on the Kansas City native. He’s wearing more wool, he’s putting snow tires … Read More
Fred Merwarth reminds us that winemaking is both a reverent glimpse into our past – our heritage and craft – and an unshakeable pursuit of experimentation and progress. Before him, this ethos guided his mentor, Hermann J. Wiemer, in the establishment of the eponymous iconic Finger Lakes winery. In the 1960s, Hermann arrived in the … Read More
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