Holiday Exclusive III | Artisan Wine Makers 2016

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Holiday Exclusive : Artisan Winemakers 2016

Wrath Wines’ San Saba Vineyard features a state-of-the-art, sustainably designed tasting room overlooking the Pinnacles, in the heart of the Santa Lucia Highlands in Monterey AVA.

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Getting ready for the next generation of hand-crafted, small batch boutique wines made at ellipsis wine company in sonoma.

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ellipsis wine company is a boutique virtual winery in Sonoma crafting small-batch artisan wines from high quality fruit.

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Michael Cox has been wine maker at Schug Winery since the 1990’s, and credits Walter Schug with playing a huge mentoring role in his career.

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Schug winery offers bespoke food and wine pairing events for guests to Schug Winery, featuring hand-crafted cuisine featuring fare from their sustainable estate garden.

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Schug Winery’s Rouge de Noirs is a small lot blend of pinot noir grapes that yield a wine of intense cranberry color and exceptional dryness on the palate.

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Yoav Gilat and Dennis Hill, co-founders and business partners at Angels & Demons and Cannonball Wine Company in Sonoma.

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Pedroncelli Family – making wine in Sonoma for nearly ninety years and four generations.

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A Tasse de dégustiation, or tastevin, is a silver tasting cup used by vignerons and negociants in Burgundy to taste wines. Most are presented as christening gifts at birth.

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Ehlers Estate follows a proud tradition of farming with experienced vineyard and cellar teams that share a non-interventionist winemaking philosophy firmly rooted in the belief that terroir defines a wine, but passion, patience and hard work are needed to ensure that it is fully expressed in the bottle.

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Elias Fernandez is the long-time wine maker for premier wine maker and Shafer Vineyards in Stags Leap District, Napa.

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Doug Shafer is President of Shafer Vineyards and son of founder John Shafer. Shafer Vineyards is located in Stags Leap District, Napa.

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Domaine Drouhin Oregon’s Roserock Pinot Noir is a cuvée selection of hand-picked, hand-sorted and individually fermented wines from the estate’s 35 blocks. Typically known for power and structure, Pinot Noirs from the Eola-Amity Hills in the hands of artisan vigneron Véronique Drouhin emphasize Roserock’s elegant and refined qualities, making for a delicious and age-worthy cuvée.

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Roserock Drouhin Oregon crafts single vineyard premium Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Roserock Vineyard – Eola-Amity Hills AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

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Veronique Drouhin-Boss is the winemaker for Domaine Drouhin, which produces prestigious grand and premier cru wines from Burgundy.

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Paul Sloan produces small lot, artisan Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Sebastopol, in the Russian River part of Sonoma.

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Troon Vineyard’s award-winning Blue Label Longue Carabine is a blend of A creative co-ferment of grapes native to the South of France: Vermentino 38.5%, Viognier 33%, Marsanne 27%, and Roussanne 1.5%.

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Troon Vineyard has been in continuous operation growing quality fruit and selling premium wine since 1972 in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley AVA.

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Food, wine and travel writer L.M. Archer, FWS writes binNotes, a blog for those consider Burgundy an art, not just a beverage.

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Lenné Estate

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Scott Wright’s film about Burgundy entitled “Three Days of Glory” features vigneron Thiébault Huber of Domaine Huber-Verdereau in Volnay , who lost nearly 80% of his harvest in 2016’s tragic hail storm.

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Layne Montgomery crafts 100-year old Zinfandel from Soucie Vineyards to make his Lodi Native m2 Old Vine Zinfandel wine.

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A final holiday shout out to all the artisan winemakers who shared their stories and trade samples with binNotes|redThread™ and The Hedonistic Taster in 2016.

Thank you for enduring the struggles necessary to share the fruit of your toil with us – wine, the red thread that binds us all.

Much peace, prosperity and joy to you all this holiday season, and in the coming year.

See you back here after the New Year.

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