Winery / People Flashcards
Bulk / California
Kyrss Speegle MW O’Neill Vintners: Bulk shipping; Loading QC, HAACP
Gallo / Premium Winemaker
Scott Kozel, VP of Winemaking Gallo: Cost comparison for Vini, Supply/Demand concerns, Cost comps hand/machine harvest
NZ / white winemaking
Rob McCulloch MW, Hawkes Bay Wine Company
Gallo / Large Production
Cal Dennison, EJ Gallo – Executive Winemaker, CA and partner wineries
Australia / Large Production
Nigel Sneyd – Berri Estates, Australia, France, AWRI, EJ Gallo, Now- Accolade Wines
Lucy Clements- Berri Estates (Accolade)- Samples 7 btls/hr during start of bottling run then slows to 2 btls/hr - checking for SO2 drop/DO pick up
Bordeaux / GCC
Jean Charles Cazes (5th Growth Pauillac), Lynch Bages: Wine Tourism in Bordeaux, Viniv, go to market strategy for Bordeaux. Tourism town.
Also, Haut-Batailley (5th Growth, Pauillac) - purchased in 2017, reworking the brand for long term positioning
Margaret River / Boutique
McLaren Vale / Boutique
Virginia Wilcox, Vasse Felix - Tannin management, Cab Sauv. vini.
Corinna Wright (Oliver’s Taranga, McLaren)
Accolade Park / Bottling in UK
Carl Cawsey, Head of Ops: Bulk shipping, bottling
Fortified / Sparkling
Sherry:
• Antonio Flores (Gonzales-Byass);
• Equipo Navazos (trendy single barrel bottlings)
Port:
• David Guimaraens (Taylor’s–Taylor-Fladgate) Adrian Bridge CEO;
• Charles Symington (Symington Group) Rupert Symington CEO
Madeira:
• Francisco Albuquerque (Madeira Wine Company/Blandy’s) Chris Blandy CEO
VDN:
• Iain Munson (Domaine Cazes, Vignobles JeanJean)
McLaren/Rutherglen/Riverina:
• Julie Campbell (Campbell’s, Rutherglen)
• Julie Mortlock (DeBortoli, sweet stuff, Riverina)
Champagne:
• Sandrine Logette-Jardine (Duval-Leroy)
• Regis Camus (Piper Rare);
• Cyril Brun (Charles Heidsieck)
• Denis Bunner (asst chef Bollinger)–planting Arbane, Pt Meslier for acid
• Gilles Descotes (Bollinger
• Frederic Panaiotis (Ruinart) - reductive style
Australia, Old Vine Barossa
Marco Cirillo, Cirillo Estate Wines
1850 Shiraz
Sauternes / Barsac
Pierre Montégut, Chateau Suduiraut
Planting density, selected yeasts, Escapee’s
Bérénice Lurton, Chateau Climens
Biodynamic, Corinne Comme consults,
Bordeaux, St. Julien
Gruaud-Larose, Saint Julien (2nd) Arnaud Frederic (Commercial Director) Precise viticulture, Eno-tourism (tower), biodynamics but possibly a shift post 2018, holding back 25% of release
Lilian Barton, Chateau Leoville-Barton
Importance of critics, Eric Boissenot consultant, Co-ferments, tanks with wider top
Bordeaux, Margaux
Rodrigo Laytte, Chateau Kirwan
Transitioning to organics, co-innoculate (Eric Boissenot), cement tanks (less energy use)
Chateau Margaux, Philippe Bascaules
Inoculation, make own barrels on property, mobile bottling, sequential inoculation (likes that its w/o SO2 longer for polymerization, accepts the risk), don’t want MLF on skins
Spring Mountain, Napa
Newton. Fires, erosion, pruning, new plantings. Transition in style- pick date, turbidity, barrel use.
New York, Small- Long Island
Alex Rossinelli (Houndstooth, Long Island), Pad Filter