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Newsletter 05/99 T HE Gold Medal Wine Club Newsletter: Vol. 9 No. 5 Monte Volpe Winery Edition In This Issue MMONTEONTE VVOLPEOLPE WWINERYINERY MONTE VOLPE LLEADSEADS CCALAL-I-ITALTAL CCHARGEHARGE WINERY Page 1 It’s Cal-Ital month at Gold Medal are squeezing into vineyards normally THIS MONTH’S Wine Club!! In case you are not aware of reserved for mainstream crops like WINES the Cal-Ital craze yet, (where have you Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot Page 2 been?) the catch phrase refers to the and Zinfandel. As these vineyards catch popular resurgence in the classic, flavorful, up to the demand, you’ll see more and SPOTLIGHT PROFILE and vibrant wine varietals of Italy, grown more Cal-Ital wines hitting the store Page 3 and produced in California. The Cal-Ital shelves. If you haven’t yet experienced phenomenon has been literally growing Cal-Ital, you’re in for a treat! This month WINE WIZARD for years. During featured winery, Page 4 the past decade, Monte Volpe, is consumer at the top of its FOOD FOR THOUGHT demand for class, specializing Page 6 Italian varietals entirely in the has compelled production of JUDGE-THE-WINES many grape award-winning Page 7 growers to start Italian varietals. shifting from If anyone REORDERS traditional Page 8 California cash can claim title to crops to classic “Cal-Ital King”, Italian varieties. you’d have a hard Italian varietals time denying such as Sangiovese, Monte Volpe Nebbiolo, owner, Greg Dolcetto, Barbera Graziano. His and Pinot Bianco Italian ancestors “With Gold Medal Wine Club, The Road to Great Wine Continued on page 4 Begins at Your Door.” The Graziano Family at the entrance of their new tasting room in Hopland. www.goldmedalwine.com (Greg and Trudi, with their kids Isabella and Alexandra. 1-800-266-8888 Gold Medal Wine Club • 3463 State Street #280 • Santa Barbara • California • 93105 Page 1 Gold Medal Wine Club features two wines each month from only the best small wineries of California. Featured wines include those which have earned medals in the top wine-industry competitions or have been highly rated by a respected national wine publication. On occasion we feature a wine which is of high medal-quality, but due to its very limited availability or by preference of the wine producer, may not be submitted to these venues for review. Each and every selection is a superb wine made in small quantities and with limited distribution. There are over 800 wineries in California producing thousands of different wines. Only wines fitting the above criteria are considered in choosing the featured selections each month. 1995 NEBBIOLO 1997 PINOT BIANCO The Nebbiolo grape is responsible for some of Pinot Bianco is the Italian name for Pinot Blanc. the finest wines in Italy. Monte Volpe’s Gold Medal It is a widely planted grape throughout northeastern winning Nebbiolo wine comes from the Ukiah valley in Italy primarily in the Friuli region. Monte Volpe’s Mendocino, where the soil and climate are ideal for medal-winning Pinot Bianco comes from 44-year-old vines growing this particular grape. The 1995 vintage is an off the Redwood Valley vineyard in Mendocino County. It exotic wine with dark garnet hues with ripe concentrated is 100% organically grown and one of the only remaining aromas of cherries, violets and smokey vanilla. Integrated Pinot Bianco sites remaining in the county. This wine forward flavors of ripe cherries and violets are accented shows intense aromas of fruit and up-front flavors of by toasty oak and supported by just the right balance of luscious tropical fruit with a soft echo of peach on the acidity and firm tannin. Enjoy this wine now with rack finish. It’s a beautiful wine, fragrant, good acidity and of lamb, grilled chicken sausages or wild game or cellar possesses character far beyond a Chardonnay. “The 1997 for the next several years. Pinot Bianco is our best yet,” says winemaker Greg Graziano. Have fun with this wine! Pair it with your favorite poultry, seafood and especially shellfish creations. WINE CREDENTIAL HIGHLIGHTS 1995 VINTAGE: Gold Medal—Mendocino County Wine 1997 VINTAGE: Silver Medal—Mendocino County Wine Competition (This is the only competition that the Competition (This is the only competition that the winery enters). winery enters). LEGACY: This is the 3rd vintage for Monte Volpe’s LEGACY: Produced by Monte Volpe since 1991. A medal Nebbiolo. Each vintage has set new standards for other winner virtually every year. Italian wine producers to emulate. Just the facts: Just the facts: pH . 3.63 pH . 3.31 Total Acid . .64 g/100 mls Total Acid . .77 g/100 mls Alcohol . 13.2% Alcohol . 13.4% Cases Produced . 549 Cases Produced . 1,397 Aged in American & French Oak . 24 Months Aged in American & French Oak . 5 Months Drink Now or Up to Year. 2004+ Drink Now or Up to Year . 2002 1-800-266-8888 Gold Medal Wine Club Page 2 GGOLDOLD MMEDALEDAL SSPOTLIGHTPOTLIGHT other wineries that were trying to Crema was sold, his own brand was Greg Graziano get off the ground. So, for several not yet mature enough to stand on “It always seemed like a lot of years, he consulted, made wine for its own, so he accepted the position work,” Greg Graziano remembers as other wineries, helped in the of winemaker for Hidden Cellars, he was growing up and working long vineyards, and built himself a solid one of the operations he helped hours on the family vineyard in reputation within the industry. establish years earlier. Mendocino County. “My dad’s Three years later, Greg took the In the early 1990s, Greg also passion was grape farming, but he position of Assistant Winemaker at took on winemaking duties for two discouraged my brother and I from La Crema Winery when a friend other wineries, Martin Ray and becoming farmers because he knew who was the winemaker convinced Yorkville. Then in 1991 he and his how tough it could be at times.” So, him to come on board. The following wife Trudi, started Monte Volpe by the time Greg went to college, year, his friend left and Greg took Winery, specializing exclusively in the titles of Grape Grower and Italian varietals. And a couple of Winemaker were far down on the years ago, he accepted the challenge list of career choices. of producing one of the country’s At college, though, something first biodynamic (certified organic) happened. “There I was at school, line of wines for a new winery not really into it and with no real called Fox Brook. This year he direction,” he remembers vividly. added yet a third brand of his own “The only thing that made sense called Fattoria Enotria, also devoted to me was growing grapes and to Italian wines making wine. That’s what I had You may have surmised by been doing most of my life. That’s now that Greg likes to keep busy. what I was most comfortable doing. “Basically, my strategy has been to So having a winery was the logical, make wine for other wineries to sensible thing.” help finance and grow my own brands,” he says. Today, with Greg transferred immediately Owner and winemaker, to the University of California at Greg Graziano checks the progress Monte Volpe wines leading the Davis, where all the wine gurus of a wine still in the barell. Italian charge, Greg’s operation is get their start. He already knew over as winemaker. He was there for solid enough to stand on its own. the basics, having grown up with five years until the winery was sold But he still has a hard time saying on-the-job-training. At Davis, he to industry giant Kendall-Jackson. “no” to people seeking his help simply wanted to get an academic During that time, Greg guided La and advice. “I’m the kind of point of view. After a year at Davis, Crema’s production from 10,000 to person who likes to have a lot at the age of 21, he and a friend 100,000 cases. of challenges,” admits Greg. opened up a winery called Milano. “I enjoy helping wineries get As winemakers are often started and sharing what I know, In 1982, Greg sold his part of allowed to do, Greg started his own but every situation also adds to the winery and moved on. He had label of wines called Domaine Saint my knowledge and understanding, gained enough industry knowledge Gregory, in 1988 while he was still so it tends to work both ways,” by then to offer his expertise to La Crema’s winemaker. When La he says philosophically. 1-800-266-8888 Gold Medal Wine Club Page 3 back hundreds of years. “All of a Vincenzo’s son, Joseph (Greg’s sudden it made sense that I should father), literally grew up in the be making Italian wines. It’s a big vineyards and dutifully followed part of my heritage.” the same path of grape growing and winemaking. In 1940, Joseph Greg remembers well the stories and his dad founded the Mendocino of his grandfather, Vincenzo, who Grape Growers Coop, creating an immigrated to the United States in important entity among grape 1908. Vincenzo left behind famine growers in the area. Also that year, WINE and depression in Italy in search they purchased 100 more acres two IZARD of a better life, like so many who miles down the road at Redwood W passed through Ellis Island in that Valley Ranch. era. His goal was to work his way to 1) Which country produces more wine: Italy, France, California’s Mendocino County “I grew up working in the or the United States? where he heard the climate and vineyard just like my father and his terrain was much like that of his father,” says Greg, recalling some 2) Since we’re on the subject of native land in Piemonte, Italy.
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