Geyserville, California SUMMER EDITION 2014 FrancisFordCoppolaWinery.com FROM THE BOTTOM The Next Generation of Winemaking OF OUR POOL, Gia, by Gia Coppola “I was always envious that every family member had TO THE TOP OF OUR a wine and I loved watching the process of how the idea evolves. It’s very much like making a movie— GLASS… there’s all these different components you have to check on - the designing, the tasting, the marketing. Thank you for choosing us as So I was excited when it finally came to be my turn. I wanted something that is light and is more directed “Best Winery to to younger people trying to understand wine.” Take Visitors To” –Gia Coppola A fifth generation filmmaker, photographer, artist, impromptu in the 2012 & 2013 Press (and impressive) mixologist and now winemaker, Gia Coppola is all of these things and much more. Introduced to the wine Democrat Readers’ Choice industry by her grandfather, Francis Ford Coppola, Gia has been involved with the family winery for over a decade. Gia worked Best of Sonoma alongside Francis and the winemaking team to create “Gia” wines in a style that reflects her personality. She also spearheaded the County Awards creative direction of the wine packaging, from the selection of the unique glass bottles to the final cut of the vivid, captivating labels. We can’t wait to host you The collaboration garnered three distinct wines – Frizzante and your guests this summer Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and Pinot Noir – crafted to be light and unpretentious. Just like the woman they were created by, If you need any assistance planning your next the wines are easygoing and fun. The Frizzante Chardonnay is visit, please reach out to us in Membership for a lightly sparkling wine with fresh, lively fruit flavors. The Pinot Gia currently splits her time between Los Angeles and New discounts on local lodging and car services. Grigio presents vibrant flavors of pineapple, white peaches and the York City, where she can be found surrounded by friends, family, minerality of wet stones. The Pinot Noir is silky in texture, with film, fashion and photography. Her debut feature film, Palo Alto, pretty spice notes and impressions of fresh picked strawberries starring Emma Roberts and James Franco, was recently released in and raspberries, with pomegranate and a hint of peach. We are theaters. She is also the Guest Designer of the Spring 2014 issue of SUMMER Recipe delighted to to introduce these playful and inspiring wines for Zoetrope: All-Story, included in all Amanti shipments. Read more your summer celebrations, available now in the tasting room and about her contribution to the magazine in our interview with Talia’s All-American online store. Michael Ray, Editor of Zoetrope: All-Story Apple Pie

Celebrate your 4th of July with this INTERVIEW WITH Zoetrope: All-Story Coppola family favorite, created by Editor, Michael Ray Francis’s sister, Talia Shire In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: to surprise our readers in some way. from Mama Coppola’s Pasta Book pg87 All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new Gia Coppola, Francis and Eleanor’s granddaughter, short fiction and one-act plays. It has received every ¾ cup flour is the guest designer of the Spring 2014 issue of Zoetrope: major story award, including the National Magazine All-Story. Tell us more about her work and design style. ¼ tsp baking powder Award for Fiction (twice), while publishing today’s most Gia’s photography evidences both the honesty and intimacy of ¼ cup of sugar promising and significant writers. snapshots and the expert framing and optimization of light of 1 egg yolk We sat down with Michael Ray, Editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, to professional work—a supremely rare balance. And they’re all ¼ stick of butter or margarine, melted ask him a few questions about the magazine and working with bursting with vitality and narrative—and frequently with humor, ½ tsp vanilla or almond extract the Coppola family. too. I was first introduced to her work through her short films and then her feature, Palo Alto; and in the perspective she brought to 8 tbs sugar What inspired the magazine? each shot, her photographer’s eye was apparent. 3 tbs flour Francis founded Zoetrope: All-Story in 1997 to cultivate the best of modern literature—stories from contemporary writers that help Zoetrope: All-Story is now in its 17th year of publication. 1 tsp cinnamon us understand our lives and our times. A year later, he introduced Who have been some of your personal favorite contributors 4 large apples, peeled and sliced the practice of inviting a different leading artist to design each and designers over the years? 2 tbs butter or margarine, softened edition in its entirety, thereby manifesting the collaborative There have been so many terrific issues, yet I’ll recount one Finely ground nuts nature of filmmaking and rendering every release a one-of-a-kind collaboration that was especially gratifying to all of us. Back in 2009, collector’s item. Past guest designers include William Eggleston, I read an interview with the British musician PJ Harvey in which she Preheat oven to 375˚. Mix together the Tom Waits, Zaha Hadid, Ed Ruscha, Elizabeth Peyton, Gus Van cited as her life’s greatest regret her sacrifice of her art practice. She’d first six ingredients. Dough might be a Sant, Beck, and Agnès Varda. attended art school in her late teens and early twenties, studying little moist, so use a bit of flour on your How many submissions do you receive each year? painting and drawing, and on the weekends she began playing in hands. Press dough into a 9-inch pie pan. local bands. Her music career quickly took off, and between the Sprinkle sugar and flour lightly onto What is the process in deciding which stories make it into the magazine? recording and touring she had little time left to make visual art; the crust. Arrange apple slices in rows all thus, as the years passed, she fell away from it. I asked around and We receive between six and ten thousand submissions annually, around the pan and sprinkle with about 2 learned that a friend of mine knew her manager, and he facilitated from which we select approximately twenty stories to publish. And tablespoons of sugar. Add in another layer an invitation to design an edition of the magazine as a means of we read much as any attentive readers do, I’m sure, considering of apples and a little more sugar. Bake for resuming her old work. She immediately and enthusiastically firstly the story’s central idea or purpose and secondly the facility 25 minutes. accepted, creating some arrestingly beautiful drawings and with which that idea is realized. The best stories transcend the While the apples are baking, mix 3 sculptures for her design of our Summer 2010 edition. While imposition of the page, becoming fully immersive experiences. tablespoons of flour, 1 teaspoon of preparing her issue, she was concurrently recording her record cinnamon, 5 tablespoons of sugar and How do you choose the designer for each issue? Let England Shake, and she said in subsequent interviews that the 2 tablespoons of soft butter. At the end The process varies issue to issue. Francis or Roman (Coppola) opportunity to return to her visual work greatly informed and of the 25 minutes, sprinkle this crumb might suggest someone, and we’re always discussing artists whose benefited her writing for the record, which ultimately won the 2011 mixture over the apples and bake another work we particularly admire. Our hope is to attract designers who Mercury Prize, given annually to the best album from a British 25 minutes. If you wish, you can put a few are both sure to present a beautiful and inspiring issue and likely musician. Her design of Zoetrope: All-Story also drew wide acclaim: finely ground nuts in the crumbs. gallery shows in London, Paris, and New York quickly followed; and The Spring 2014 issue, featuring Guest Designer Gia Coppola, is included in all Amanti shipments. If you would like to learn more about or subscribe to Zoetrope: All- Story, visit www.all-story.com. As a member of the Amici or Amanti Membership, you receive a 30% discount on all subscriptions. 2014 WINE SUMMER Amici & Amanti SHIPMENT Summer is here, which means it’s time to fire up the grill, open your favorite Francis Ford FAMILY EVENTS Coppola wine and celebrate this season of adventure. We hope you enjoy this collection A quick snapshot of the events ahead, but we have more in the works! Check your of newly released wines alongside your favorite summertime moments. email for your invitations and information. 2011 Eleanor 2012 Director’s Pinot Noir 2012 ROSSO & BIANCO Rosso JUNE Amanti Mix and Amanti Red Amici Mix and Amici Red Amici Red 8th Annual H-Block Party “Eleanor has always been a true partner in Director’s Pinot Noir is made from a “My family has always made wine. To Saturday, June 14, 2014 all my endeavors, bringing her creativity, blend of Carneros and Russian River hear it from my father Carmine, these were honesty and generous spirit to it all — Valley fruit, which is why we designated not fancy wines; they were everyday wines, $85 for members/ $95 for guests of members she’s wife, mother, artist, filmmaker — this wine “Sonoma Coast.” Our Carneros wines that were on the dinner table each Dine with us among the vines. Come select collaborator and inspiration. For all this fruit boasts notes of spice and earth while night. Our Rosso and Bianco are made in or visit your very own Estate vine from and more, after fifty years of marriage, our Russian River fruit offers density and the same spirit – wines for everyday life.” – the winery’s Cabernet Sauvignon H Block, I wanted to honor her with ‘Eleanor,’ her richness. Our 2012 Director’s Pinot Noir Francis Ford Coppola then enjoy an evening of dining under the own wine.” -Francis Ford Coppola reflects the beauty of the vintage with an The first vintage of Rosso was made stars, bountiful wine, and dancing to live Created as a gift from Francis to Eleanor alluring fragrance of raspberries, cherries, in 1995—long before red blends were entertainment. for their 50th wedding anniversary, 2011 and rose petals. Silky upon entry, the wine popular. Francis’s vision was to offer an SEPTEMBER Eleanor is a robust red blend that combines broadens on the palate, growing richer and easy drinking and affordable everyday fruit from both of the Coppola properties. more flavorful with sweet juicy flavors of wine that would pair beautifully with any 9th Annual Festival Vendemmia Similar in style to Australia’s famed strawberries, cherries and cloves, as well as meal. Rosso’s flavor complexity is a result of Saturday, September 20, 2014 Penfold’s Grange, we blended Zinfandel, notes of tea leaves and candied orange peel. blending varietals: Zinfandel offers sweet, $55 for members / $65 for guests of members Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc grown in Toasted oak rounds out the spice character juicy flavors and lively spice nuances; Syrah Started in 2006 to celebrate our harvest, Rutherford with Dry Creek Valley Petite and helps sustain its elegant structure. Enjoy gives the wine a velvety texture; Cabernet Vendemmia is our version of an Italian street Sirah and Alexander Valley Cabernet this vintage of Director’s Pinot Noir with Sauvignon provides the structure and red fair, inspired by the vintage carnivals of Sauvignon to create a unique bottling that grilled salmon, spice rubbed pork chops, or fruit flavors; and Petite Sirah contributes Coney Island. Enjoy a theatrical evening of is very long lived with exceptional depth mushroom risotto. weight and body. 2012 was an exceptional wine, food and entertainment! and complexity. The 2011 Eleanor delivers vintage; there were no weather extremes rich, decadent flavors that are textural, 2012 Francis Coppola Reserve either in spring or fall, so our grapes ripened OCTOBER aromatic and enduring. Aged for two years Pinot Noir, Keresey Vineyard steadily and evenly. The result is a wine Diamond Masquerade Ball in the barrel, the wine exhibits a fragrant Amanti Mix and Amanti Red with beautiful concentration, impeccable nose of cherries, blackberries, cloves and balance and lush, fragrant fruit flavors. October 2014 Date to be announced “The Keresey Vineyard is located in the cedar followed by succulent flavors of Russian River Valley in what is known as Sleepy Hollow meets The Great Gatsby for raspberries and cassis. Spice and earth notes the Santa Rosa Basin. Although you may 2012 Diamond Collection Merlot an elegant Masquerade Ball in our barrel are prevalent with impressions of leather, not recognize this name, you may recognize Amici Red room full of wine, food, entertainment and minerals, pepper and graphite underscoring the terroir because this vineyard is located With Merlot, the objective is to create a of course, a bit of Halloween-themed mystery. a trace of floral. We hope you enjoy this in Saralee Kunde land. In fact, this is the wine that has structure and complexity Harvest and Halloween Carnival newly released vintage, which is unlike second time this vineyard has made our but soft, smooth tannins. We find that our previous vintages. Because we make so prestigious reserve program, just under sourcing fruit from several different Sunday, October 26, 2014 little of this wine, we have the freedom to new ownership. Saralee Kunde planted appellations works best to give us a Merlot We invite all your little ghouls and goblins for play with different varietals each vintage, this vineyard for the original owners, Mary that exudes multiple layers of flavor and a day of game-playing, pumpkin-decorating, as we work with Eleanor on the blends. and Tom Cunningham, and they named a nice seductive texture, so we combine and costume-wearing fun! For immediate enjoyment decant several it ‘Tomar.’ Mary had her own block with fruit from Paso Robles, Sonoma and For a complete list of our upcoming Wine hours before serving or cellar 3-5 years to clone 667 planted, and Tom had his own Monterey County. Our Paso Robles grapes Family Only events, check out the Membership experience this wine at its fullest. block with 777 planted. When Mary and deliver sweet fruit flavors, spice notes and Events section of our website at earthy, mineral nuances; our Sonoma fruit francisfordcoppolawinery.com/membership/events. Tom moved away from the vineyard to 2012 Director’s Cut Zinfandel, assisted living, they wanted to make sure contributes natural acidity to create more If you would like to see all of our events, visit balance and finesse; and Monterey County francisfordcoppolawinery.com/events. Dry Creek Valley their beloved Tomar Vineyard went into Amanti Red good hands; the vineyard certainly did grapes provide richness and concentration. 2012 Director’s Cut Zinfandel is the when Nick Keresey and his family bought With aromas and flavors of plums, perfect coupling with spicy barbecued the ranch and continued to farm the ranch wild berries, cocoa, cinnamon, cherries, Enjoy the wine from a meats, like RUSTIC’s signature Grilled with exceptional quality in mind. They currants, blueberries and crème brulee, this Short Ribs with Chimichurri. As Lise brought on vineyard manager Joe Tollini Diamond Collection Merlot is perfect for DIFFERENT shipment… Asimont, Director of Grower Relations, with Bevill Vineyard Management to make your summertime barbeque. actually puts it, “[Director’s Cut Zinfandel] is the sure that the vineyard cultural practices WITHOUT most forgiving of wines when it comes were performed at the highest quality 2012 Director’s Cut Sauvignon SWITCHING clubs! to spice. The bramble berry can handle lots possible, and the result was a second reserve Blanc, Sonoma Valley of heat.” placement for the vineyard. What a great Amanti Mix If you loved the wine in your shipment or And as Lise knows, the technique of way to honor Mary and Tom Cunningham When creating our Amanti Mix Summer would like to try wine from a different club, growing in the vineyards contributes just as and Saralee Kunde, whose heart built the Collection, we couldn’t stop ourselves from order now and enjoy an additional 5% off much to the wine as the time in the barrel. Russian River Valley appellation. We including a summertime favorite at the your membership discount, plus a flat $15 This Director’s Cut Zinfandel is grown hope you enjoy the expression of this winery – our Director’s Cut Sauvignon shipping fee*. in Dry Creek Valley, exploring the use of beloved area, with bright cherry and plum Blanc from Sonoma Valley. Picked from Call us to reorder your favorite wines today two distinct techniques. One consists of tones, dark blackberry and spice core a vineyard located between Glen Ellen at 877-329-3266 or email us at traditional farming practices and includes and lovely rosewood aromatics. Cheers!” and Sonoma, this wine exhibits different [email protected]. the dry-farming of mature vines that are -Lise Asimont, Director of Grower Relations flavors and aromas from our Sauvignon Amanti Red: head-trained, spur-pruned and severely Blanc grown in Alexander Valley. For 2013 The White Doe 2011 Eleanor 2 bottles thinned in the spring to produce low yields. this wine, we grow two Sauvignon Blanc Amanti Mix and Amici Mix clones that are highly distinctive. The first 2012 Francis Coppola Reserve The other method utilizes bilateral cordon spur-pruning, on-wire trellising, drop “The White Doe is more than a wine; gives the wine a very definite exotic fruit Pinot Noir 2 bottles irrigation and carefully manicured canopies. it’s an authentic American myth and character and impressions of lemon grass, 2012 Director’s Cut Zinfandel 2 bottles We source our Zinfandel grapes from bench one of a number of clues that will reveal white flowers, and tropical fruits, all of Amanti Mixed: lands and hillsides, all contributing to the the name, style and essence of our new which are aromatic elements. This has been 2011 Eleanor 2 bottles succulent flavors of cherries, mixed berries winery in Geyserville. It’s a unique blend unique and consistent with the vineyard, of 80% Chenin Blanc and 20% Viognier, and we attribute it to the Musque clone. 2012 Francis Coppola Reserve and mocha. intending to evoke gurgling brooks and the The Sauvignon Musque clone is not Pinot Noir 2 bottles 2013 Sofia Rosé natural glade settings of the America that “muscaty,” but it is aromatic. When 2012 Director’s Cut Sauvignon Blanc, Amici Mix once was, and in a way will always be: blue blended with a traditional Sauvignon Sonoma Valley With the opening of the umbrellas around skies, verdant fields and bounteous natural Blanc clone, we achieve greater complexity, 2013 The White Doe the pool at the winery, we begin to see food and drink. Purity and wholesomeness resulting in luscious tropical fruit flavors Amici Red: glasses filled with this deep pink Rosé. A – these are ideas that we will continue to and floral notes. summertime favorite, the 2013 Sofia Rosé share with you as we reveal the story we Still have a bottle of the Director’s Cut 2012 Director’s Pinot Noir 2 bottles exudes an alluring aroma of raspberries, have to tell.” - Francis Ford Coppola Sauvignon Blanc Alexander Valley from 2012 Diamond Collection Merlot pomegranate, bergamot and wild flowers. your Amanti Mix Spring Shipment? 2012 ROSSO & BIANCO Rosso Bright on the palate and extremely well Compare them side by side at your next Amici Mixed: balanced, the dry Rosé is comprised of summertime party. 2012 Director’s Pinot Noir 2 bottles 65% Pinot Noir and 35% Syrah. When served chilled, the refreshing flavors of 2013 Sofia Rosé juicy strawberries, plums and cloves make a 2013 The White Doe delicious partner to light summer fare and *Not applicable in Alaska or Hawaii savory hors d’oeuvres.