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Fine Wine Confidential Podcast

The Fine Wine Confidential Podcast tells the story of how the modern-day Virginia wine industry has progressed during the past forty-five years and is now achieving Thomas Jefferson"s aspiration to produce world-class wine. Fred Reno interviews many of the Old Dominion"s prominent winery owners, winemakers and viticulturists. In their own words, you the listener, will learn why Virginia is the most exciting wine-growing State in the country today.The Fine Wine Confidential Podcast having chronicled

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EPISODE # 20 KESWICK VINEYARDS: STEPHEN BARNARD...

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2021/07/02

Keswick Vineyards was established by Al and Cindy Schornberg in 2000 on a property that has Virginian historical roots dating back to 1727. Stephen Barnard joined them in 2002 which was their first vintage and jumped right into making the wine. He left in 2004 and rejoined Keswick in 2006 and has been the winemaker and vineyard manager ever since. Stephen got his start in wine at Groot Constantia Winery the oldest winery in his native country South Africa. First as a tour guide, then as a cellar

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EPISODE #19 KING FAMILY VINEYARDS:MATTHIEU...

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2021/06/16

Matthieu Finot was born into a winegrowing family in Crozes-Hermitage, France. In 1995 after graduating with his degree in enology from the university in Beaune he proceeded to work in multiple wine regions in France including, Rhone Valley, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Provence, and Jura. He did stints in Italy and South Africa before arriving in Virginia in 2003.He then landed a position at Afton Mountain Winery and would become the full-time winemaker at King Family Vineyards in 2007 succeeding Michael

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EPISODE # 18 EARLY MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS:BEN...

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2021/06/02

Ben Jordan began his winemaker career in California and would move back to his native state of Virginia in 2012 where he took the position as winemaker at Michael Shaps Wineworks. He was then recruited by Early Mountain Vineyards and became their winemaker in 2015. He is recognized as one of the most respected upcoming winemakers in the Virginia Wine Industry today. Early Mountain Vineyards has grown in acclaim as their wine quality continuously improves under Ben's leadership. Ben and his

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EPISODE #17 EARLY MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS, AILEEN SEVIER...

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2021/05/22

Early Mountain Vineyards was established in 2012 after Jean and Steve Case, the founders of AOL, purchased a vineyard in Madison County, at that time called Sweely vineyards, when it went on sale in 2011. Jean Case took the lead on the project with the goal to not just produce world class wine at Early Mountain but to promote Virginia winegrowing and its wines as a region that stands next to the best in the world. She started to feature wines from other top Virginia wine producers in their

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EPISODE #16 TRUE HERITAGE: GEORGE HODSON/CEO & EMILY...

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2021/05/09

True Heritage is the new wine project of the brother/sister team, George Hodson/ CEO & Emily Pelton/Winemaker at Veritas Vineyards. They created this new Brand with the expressed intent to showcase Virginia wine on a more National and Regional scale. There is no tasting room, hospitality center or any of the Agritourism trappings that a vast majority of Virginia winegrowers use to promote their wines. The vineyards which were planted are producing grapes for these new wines are centered

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EPISODE #15 BLENHEIM VINEYARDS/KIRSTY HARMON...

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2021/05/03

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EPISODE #14 LUCIE MORTON

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2021/04/14

Lucie Morton is recognized today world wide as one of the foremost Viticulturist and Ampelographer in the Wine Industry. She started in winegrowing back in 1971 when her Dad asked her to take a gap year as she was finishing up grad school to be his farm manager and look into planting vines at Morland their family farm. She never looked back. She would later go to France to gain her formal education in winegrowing. Eventually, her career would take her to California where she consulted from many

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Episode # 13 Claude Thibaut/ Thibaut-Janisson

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2021/03/28

Claude Thibaut was born in a Gran Cru village in the Champagne region. His grandfather once worked as a vineyard manager for Moet-Chandon and his father was among the first of the grower champagne producers as they have become to be known in the country today. Claude received his winemaking degree from the university in Reims which at that time was a recently established program. Prior to that the only Universities that offered a degree were in Bordeaux, Dijon, or at Montpellier. Claude would go

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EPISODE #12 DuCard Vineyards, Scott Elliff Founder &...

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2021/03/23

DuCard vineyards was established in 2001 after Scott and Karen Elliff purchased property on the eastern slope of the Shenandoah National Park west of the historic town of Madison, Virginia. The property, at an elevation of 1,000 feet was once the site of a thriving Apple Orchard at a time when Virginia was the leading state for apple growing. Scott and his wife bought the property as a getaway from Washington, DC and after consulting with the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service were advised

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EPISODE #11 ANKIDA RIDGE, CHRISTINE, DENNIS, & NATHAN...

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2021/03/08

Ankida Ridge was established by Christine & Dennis Vrooman with the planting of their first vines in 2008. Lucie Morton was their vineyard consultant and she brilliantly, in my opinion, advised them to plant Pinot Noir. She believed that the southeastern facing slope at 1800 feet nestled into the Blue Ridge Mountains along with the granite soils gave them the chance to be successful with the varietal. She was 100% correct. Ankida Ridge in a short period of time has been producing some

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Episode #10 Andrew Hodson/Founder & Owner of Veritas...

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2021/02/26

Veritas Winery was established in 1999 by Andrew Hodson and his wife Patricia. They both had successful careers in the Medical field but asked themselves is this all there is? So, during a folk tour after meeting a couple who had moved to Virginia and described how they had never been happier and that Virginia had a budding winegrowing industry. Andrew and Patricia looked into Virginia and eventually bought a piece of property that was Saddleback Farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Episode 9 RDV Vineyards/Rutger de Vink

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2021/02/10

Rutger de Vink the founder of RDV established is Vineyard in 204 after having working as an intern with Jim Law and Linden in the early 2000s. He credits Jim for a fortuitous trip he took at Jim's invitation with a group of winemakers to travel to Bordeaux in 2002. It was during that trip that he met a fellow Dutchman, Kees van Leeuwen, when they visited Cheval Blanc in St. Emilion. It was Kees, who was a vineyard consultant, that he listen to about what was necessary for a vineyard site to

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Episode #8 Shep Rouse /Rockbridge Winery

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2021/02/02

Shepherd (Shep) Rouse is Virginia through and through. His ancestors roots trace back to the 17th century in Virginia. Shep was a Fulbright Scholar and after spending time in Germany he fell in love with their wines and Riesling specifically. When he returned to the U.S. he decided to take up the art of winemaking and headed to the West Coast where he would as a get his degree in Enology at U.C. Davis. He worked for several of the early pioneers in Northern California and would eventually make

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Episode 7 featuring Jim Law owner and winemaker at...

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2021/01/19

Jim Law began his quest to produce wine in Virginia when he and his family bought a long-abandoned apple orchard in the Northern part of Virginia in 1983 after several years of searching for a parcel of land that had high elevation and had eastern facing slopes. His first vineyard experience was with a small Ohio vineyard and in 1981 he had two distinctly different opportunities to help start a winery. One in Southern Oregon and one that would take him to Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. He

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Episode 6 Jay Youmans, Master of Wine

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2021/01/10

In September of 2020 I had the opportunity to interview Jay Youmans MW. Jay owns the Capital Wine School in Washington, DC. and is responsible for overseeing and conducting the Virginia Governor's Cup wine Competition. He shares how he originally got involved in the competition and describes the inter-workings and criteria that is required to participate. Jay got started in the wine business while he was going to school at Wake Forest in North Carolina when he went to work at a friends

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Episode 5 Chris Hill Virginia Viticulturist

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2020/12/30

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Episode 4 with Michael Shaps Founder and Owner of...

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2020/12/16

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Episode 3 Luca Paschina General Manager and Winemaker...

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2020/12/06

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Garbriele Rausse Episode 2 part 2

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2020/11/29

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Gabriele Rausse Episode 2/part 1 Fine Wine...

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2020/11/24

This is Part 1 of Episode 2 where I have the pleasure to interview Gabriele Rausse, who the NY Times called the Father of modern-day Virginia winegrowing. ( Part 2 of this Episode will be published as a continuation of this Episode at a later date). Gabriele came to Virginia in April of 1976 when Gianni Zonin offered him the position of planting the vineyard at Barboursville. At the time he was back in Italy waiting on his Visa to return to Australia where he had been offered a position at the

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