Coming soon will be another wonderful featured interview. This time Julien Miquel interviewed Julio Saenz, Winemaker of La Rioja Alta SA. Look for his article and podcast at www.UncorkedMonthly.com

Winemaker Giuseppe Sala of I Selvatici: Respecting the Past and Relishing the Present.

Winemaker Giuseppe Sala of I Selvatici: Respecting the Past and Relishing the Present

Winemaker Giuseppe Sala never had the chance to meet the man after whom he was named. Growing up working on the winery that his grandfather founded, however, Sala would sometimes sense the old man’s presence among the vines. When Sala and his father might grumble about the less-than-ideal weather, it seemed the departed Giuseppe was listening and asserting a loving force to part clouds and withhold rain. Now and then, young Sala’s parents would hear his grandfather’s laugh in his, or catch an uncannily familiar glance from his eyes. In these ways, Sala’s grandfather lives on.

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David Castrucci of Castrucci Vineyards: Wise Words and Deeds from Dad.

t’s inevitable. As children, we learn by watching the adults in our lives. We pick up on clues without realizing it’s happening.

We’re like blobs of Silly Putty being rolled over the funny pages and picking up images and dialogue along the way that get kneaded into the stuff we’re made of.

Sometimes history repeats itself as one generation internalizes the examples of the one before it. Sometimes parents are self-aware enough to show their children a better example than the one they got.

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Brian Loring of the Loring Wine Company: No Labor Where There’s Love.

Starting his own wine business wasn’t easy, but it was a dream come true for Brian Loring and he wouldn’t change a thing. In fact, if the entire zany process could be summed up in a movie montage, he says the soundtrack would be “Mint Car” by The Cure on account of these happy-go-lucky lyrics:

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Talking Taste with Tres Goetting, Winemaker for Robert Biale Vineyards. Razor sharp palate

When I read that Tres Goetting, winemaker for Robert Biale Vineyards, had a “razor sharp palate”, I decided to open a dialogue with him on the subject of wine and taste. Even if my questions were impossible to answer, I still thought it would make for an interesting discussion.

Tres_Original_smallGoetting had never heard such flattering words about his own palate before, so the “razor sharp” designation was news to him. “I think that is a good thing,” he said modestly. I asked him to verbalize what he thought it meant.

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There aren’t too many winemakers like Julianne Laks.

Despite a demure air of elegance, she’s quite the stand-out. Going back to 1977, she was one of only two women to graduate from the University of California at Davis that year with a degree in fermentation science.

Directly out of college, Laks went to work part-time for Cakebread Cellars and was eventually appointed winemaker in 2002 – a pretty big deal in itself, as she is the only non-family member to serve there as winemaker.

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Our featured interview with Giuseppe Sala will be published soon. However, you can listen to the podcast at http://uncorkedmonthly.com/event/featured-interview-giuseppe-sala-from-i-selvatici/

We will be publishing the full featured interview soon.

Sean Foster of the Merryvale Family of Wines Will Never Know the Smell of a Post-it. Foster opened with "I’ve never been a winemaker. I’ve never worked at a winery. Before becoming a professional writer, I earned my daily bread mostly in carpeted high-rise offices with industrial size Keurig machines and closets packed with surplus post-it notes.".

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Northern Hospitality from Chateau Chantal in Traverse City, Michigan with Marie-Chantal Dalese and Brian Hosmer.

Not when “northern hospitality” is giving them such a run for their money.

Just ask the lady who coined the term. Marie-Chantal Dalese recently celebrated her one-year anniversary as CEO of Chateau Chantal in Traverse City, Michigan. And if anyone knows how to extend a warm northern welcome, it’s Dalese.

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Jeff Bundschu and Rand Rognlien of Vindie Wine on the Alchemy of Wine and Music. Bundschu and his partner Rognlien are the founders of Vindie Wine out of California. These guys have come up with a great way for wine lovers to discover and fall in love with new music.

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