Meet the American Winemaker Arguing for Grand Cru Vineyards in the US

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In the mid -1990s, 10 years after the first vintage of the first vintage Red, based in his Cabinet Swagunan, he wanted to do the same with Panut Nair and began searching for a grape garden. While working with a close friend who was a wine importer, he located two grandchildren plots for sale in Burgundi, and he arranged his liquor maker Helen Tourley to join hands with Michelle Nilin in the Winery in Chasgen-Merch. The first mayor’s daughter Cleo tells Rob reports The agreement came after the Berganden real estate law signed the papers, which gives locals the right to refuse first. She says, “After this disappointing experience, Jason kept her eyes close to the house.”

The next stop was the bats wine yard in the Fort Ross Sea View Ava, located on the west coast of Sonoma County. A form named for the dream of its owners, Dave and Doroti Davis, to travel to the world, no grapes have been installed yet. In the 1970s, in addition to the growing organic production of Ellis Waters in the Cheese Restaurant, Davisis increased livestock, wool, and a small school. Tourley and her husband, Witticalist John Weitlavor (both helped find the first -fold wine yard site in the Valley in the valley), brought Jason to the VIFER to survey the land, and Tourley made a domestic roast chicken below his grapefruit with a home with a grapefruit. Along with the cool marine air, the combination of lunch, the sunlight at the height, and the grace of fruit and vegetables so close to the Pacific, made the elderly the elder realize that it was a great place to get out of the Bordeaux style mixture and plant its chardono and Panot Nair.

Tourley told Jason that the grape garden would be “La Teach of California”, and that he bought the land and David Abraio (who worked with Harlan’s choice, screaming Eagle, and working in the name of some people), who was ready for year -long milk. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the cystine monk, Cleo, is looking for a turning point on his way to be considered a grand of a new world. After joining his father in 2008 as a partner and developed the first vintage of the Veffer Panjat Nair and Chardonay in 2012, he praised it as a “turning point in the world and with consistency and quality track records” at a place. “In Bordeaum, the status of the CRU has been explained by the producer and Teroir in Burgundi, but Kleo believes that in the United States, it can be determined by the quality, heritage and consistency of the site as well as alcohol and consensus from top professionals.

Although the Fort Ross is a clay type of clay in the CV, which runs along the coast thanks to the San Andreas fault line, but the gold is not sitting in the whole of the Garden of Gold. An ancient marine floor and volcanic ash is derived from ashes that surprise the mineral role and acidity in alcohol, the goldridge is known for its powder structure, advanced drainage and organic material deficiency, causing grapes to cause water and nutrients, causing the depth of water and nutrients. And one of the most important aspects of the soil is that its pH allows the fruit to maintain its acidity by boiling.

“For the past 23 years, we have been constantly learning about our site,” says Cleo. “We have learned that between 920 and 1,200 feet is above the fog line, but the upside is below the layer. On top of the fog line, above the sun and excessive shine, the specific structure in the pinnot noise and to a large extent, the physical structure, at night, the bottom of our grapefruit, even under our grape layer. ” “It is otherwise a hot place in the cooling region, which allows us to cook phenolic phenolic cooking.”

Basically, the combination of location, height, clay, sunshine and cool marine air develops a signature that cannot be copied anywhere in the world, which is really behind the CRU status. Cleo believes that the United States is many years away from any formal identity of the garden quality. “The Burgundy ranking was created over hundreds of years, and in California, we still talk for decades.” “We are still very early in the process of determining what are the best places in California’s streams, and if the ranking system is developed, it will not be in the lives of me or my children.” The first mayor know that values ​​are different here than France, America is seen as a “land of opportunity”, where capitalism is much more appreciated by the idea of ​​culture or inheritance. Although she would like to see a government position in which the high standards of Wi -Ferrer Panut Nair and Chardena have been announced, Kalo eventually believes that the American single -wine yards who care about alcohol will vote from their wallets. She says, “I think it will have to decide for the market and consumers instead of a government agency, which is in large numbers of the dollar and property.”

We do not see any possible method that TTB, Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which approves and regulates the US Vituals areas and is responsible for collecting taxes on alcohol and enforcing the rules and regulations, are always in the debate that the state is united in the debate. We can predict individual regions that are synonymous with an abnormal Vedo single The ranking, which was recently added to the Rega, but by then, it depends on the Winery owners how extraordinary their gardens are. In the wifer, the bottles speak themselves.

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