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Get to know the family behind Buoncristiani Family Winery Winemaking at Buoncristiani Family Winery is most definitely a family affair. Brothers Nate, Jay, and Matt Buoncristiani were born and raised in Napa and started making wine as a hobby in their parents’ garage. Once they started winning awards at local wine competitions, they decided to…
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Meet Texas Native James Moss, winemaker and owner of J. Moss Winery Texas native James Moss got his start in the wine business working in sales for a wine distributor in Dallas. He tells Robb Report he eventually moved to Napa and began working for a new distributor, “assisted a friend at his small family…
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Get to know the winemaker behind La Sirena 2017 Studio Series Red Wine Winemaker Heidi Peterson Barrett is well known for crafting 100 (Robert Parker) point wines for Screaming Eagle in 1992 and 1997. She started her own label, La Sirena, in 1994. The first year she produced a wine made from Sangiovese, and she…
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Get to know George and Nancy Bravante, the founders of Bravante Vineyards George and Nancy Bravante made their first vintage of Bravante in 1995. They both work in the day-to-day business of producing wine from grapes grown on their two vineyards which total 12 acres, one measuring eight acres and the other measuring four acres….
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Meet Kimberly Hatcher, owner of Morgado Cellars, winemaker, and San Francisco Firefighter Kimberly Hatcher is the winemaker and owner of Morgado Cellars, but what most people don’t know is that she is also a San Francisco firefighter and has been for 25 years. And if that isn’t surprising enough, she also raised Nigerian Dwarf dairy…
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Get to know the winemakers behind the Sequum 2017 Kidd Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon When Paul Skinner received his PhD in Soil Science at UC Davis in 1988 he “ . . . swore that he wanted nothing to do with owning a vineyard and producing wine.” That all changed when he had the opportunity to…
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Get to know the family behind the Buselli 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon When Italo and Rosalia Buselli bought a tract of land on the east side of Napa Valley in 1990, they could hardly have imagined that their grapes would end up in some of the region’s most highly sought after, limited production wines. As their…