Winemakers of the year Steve Matthiasson. If you want a great wine, you first consider a grape grower. That has been Steve Matthiasson approach; He was a sought-after vineyard consultant for many years before starting his eponymous Winery. It is a source for some of the most remarkable wines of Napa Valley, such as 2010 Matthiasson White ($35), a concentrated mixture from Ribolla Gialla and tocai friulano, Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon quickly become - a surprising mix of grape varieties in the heart of Cabernet country. The inspiration for this came from a trip in the Italian region of Friuli, of the Matthiasson says, "I realized you throw wealth tasting this Friulian white, you do not have to have fresh air." "You can have both in the same wine."
With its grapes come first sensibility, his skills to compensate delicacies with crisp intensity and his fascination with little-known varieties, will help Matthiasson, the paradigm shift in Napa Valley.
Sometimes, luck is a vineyard. In 2005 lived Maggie Harrison in Santa Barbara, California, winemakers in sine qua non, worked as an Assistant to help that some of the greatest wines of California. She had no plans, move anywhere, but then she got a call, whether their view of a vineyard site in Oregon, Willamette Valley. Shortly after his arrival - "less than a minute," says it - she decided to pick up and move to the Dundee Hills.
Good luck, but also a wise choice. Rocky, 11-acre Antica Terra vineyard, Noir is happening on a prehistoric ocean floor, growing exceptional Pinot capable. And Harrison has the ability to fulfil this potential as her complex real estate and silky Botanica map filling (the latter from prestigious Shea vineyard). But as good as these wines are Harrison's talent even more clearly in their 2010 Erratica Rosé ($50). With longer contact with Pinot-skins and a year of aging Lees (dead yeast), it is a Rosé with the complexity and depth of a large red; both interesting and delicious, and a solid promise yet to come even more ambitious wines.
Photo © Meg Smith photography.A characteristic large winemakers share is that they have potential to understand. Helen Keplinger, for example, makes exceptional wines at very modest regions - the steep, Rocky vineyards of California's Amador and El Dorado County in the foothills of the Sierra, known above all for affordable zinfandels.
How does someone using this kind of hidden potential? Keplinger which occurs because case it time spent, so that other first-class red wines (for Napa Valley Bryant family vineyards), as well as familiarity with terroir as the Priory and its equally stony vineyards (it was a wine). Or it may be only a love of rocks. As she says, "If you way like I do are terribly convincing rocks, these places." In both cases their vision in wines such as the 2010 is a mineral-rich, layered mix of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre-clear, Keplinger lithic ($60); It's the kind of wine, can one day help to redefine an entire region.
Aaron tries pot back to his roots on NAPA Cabernet. "I think I am existed, looking for what in Napa before the late 1990s," he says. "These artificially concentrated, superfruity wines are a bit boring." It meets this goal with wines such as its 2009 pot wines her Majesty's secret service ($110), a deep cross single-vineyard-red, the equal parts power and finesse (also true of wines he makes properties such as Blackbird and seven stones for Star). Pot influences are wide ranging – he has managed Bordeaux castles and wines around the world - but his true inspiration is his home turf. "Cost I have so many large, older NAPA wines, and questions I always, are not why we make these wines more?"
When Gavin comes Chanin, Pinot noirs and Chardonnays someday be big, ripe, in-your-face California a thing of the past. "To make balanced wines, the reason why I started was my Winery," Chanin says. "Mature, overly oaked wines not reflect, where they grew." "But I think also balanced wines simply taste better." His 2010 Chanin wine company bien Nacido vineyard Chardonnay ($35), is laser-like with its focus after he is a perfect example of the style.
A few months ago Chanin for two of the best winemakers in the Central Coast worked until Bon Climat Jim Clendenen and Qupé of Bob Lindquist, au. But now is beating on its own, a partnership with investor Bill Price (Buccella, Kistler), refers vineyards Chanin wine company and the start up price Chanin, on single vineyard Pinot from some of the largest vineyards in California.
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