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By KRISTINA SHEVORY, November 14, 2008
Travel / Escapes Section
A Wine Tour at the Corner of Oak and Vine
A
small group of vintners is ditching the countryside and opening
wineries in old factories and industrial showrooms in cities across the
country.
Vinography: wine blog
JC Cellars, Oakland: Current Release
08.24.2008
In the Silicon Valley, business incubation is quite common -- larger companies often provide financial, operations, and moral support to smaller companies that they themselves have started, or outside start-ups that they believe have a good potential for success. This practice has become so normal that some companies have established entire business models based on incubation.
Incubation has also become common in the wine industry, where the
costs of all the equipment and supplies required to make wine can be an
extreme barrier to entry, and a source of extremely high overhead for
those who do take the plunge. Just like a larger company might rent out
some cubes and offer guidance to a smaller company, so to do wineries
offer the use of their equipment to smaller producers using the fees
from such services to defray the costs of their capital investments.
But incubation in the wine industry does not only happen as a matter
of economic convenience, it often happens simply because, frankly, most
folks in the wine industry can't help themselves -- they love making
wine.
Jeff Cohn comes to winemaking from the world of food and
hospitality. He fell in love with eating and drinking in his twenties
and decided that he was going to make them his career, heading off for
a degree in culinary arts, which was followed by a degree in
hospitality management...
Click here to read the full Blog entry.
Charles Olken Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: 91 pts
2006 Preston Vineyard Marsanne
While a rich and well-fruited wine with plenty of depth and an
engaging element of ripe peaches at its center, what sets this very
successful Marsanne apart from the crowd is its exceptional balance.
Big, but lively and energetic straight through to end, it avoids the
heaviness that so often comes in very ripe wines, and in so doing wins
high marks as a worthy mealtime companion to a wide range of richer
foods.
Tasting Notes | Purchase Online
Charles Olken Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: 92 pts
2006 The First Date Rhône Blend
Two Puffs for JC Cellars Rhône Whites The Jeff Cohn touch is more than evident here insofar richness and
deep, very ripe fruit are the wine's chief concerns. Smelling of honey
and orange-flesh melons with suggestions of dried apples and spice
popping up on the palate, this unctuous, very full-bodied wine in
backed up by good acidity on the palate and in the finish, and it makes
wonderful aperitif with light nibbles, and it will not disappoint with
grilled fish and chicken.
Tasting Notes | Purchase Online
James Laube Wine Spectator 91 pts
2006 Fess Parker's Vineyard Syrah
Generous ripe, juicy black cherry and blackberry fruit is at this core in this full bodied effort, with hints of mineral, spice and floral scents. elegant and stylish. Drink now through 2012.
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