For the first time, winemakers, critics, and consumers had a common lexicon to draw upon.
At the same time, winemakers in southern Italy, in Spain, in the south of France and to a lesser extent in the United States were proving that it was possible to produce a bottle of wine with character and individuality for $10.
Because of the scale of production at Hosmer, Aaron Roisen is the only needed full time winemaker.
The facility provides barrels, bottling stations, waxing to seal the tops, full-time winemakers and graphic designers to create custom labels.
Crushpad provides access to grapes from Oregon and California, as well as tutorials, barrels, bottling stations, waxing to seal the tops and full-time winemakers and graphic designers to help you create your own label.
In 1968 an original investor, David Bennion, left the institute to become Ridge's first full-time winemaker.
Because he can draw a union pension, Mr. Aquilino, 48, is thinking about retiring early and becoming a full-time winemaker.
Giacosa, and his long-time winemaker, Dante Scaglione, were traditionalists, always using large casks for aging their wine, abstaining from barriques.
The vintage chart speaks to wine regions at a time when winemakers -- and consumers -- are increasingly concerned with terroir, the uniqueness of small plots of land.
At roughly the same time, the winemakers in those poverty-stricken, long-ignored regions began to realize that they had more to offer than anonymous blending wine.
IN early October, at the height of harvest time, when winemakers in Northern California began turning their cherished fruit into nectar of the gods, Howard Smith found what he was looking for.
