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Sunday, July 12, 2020 - J Chan owner & Chris Comey winemaker talk with Antonio Galloni...
His wife’s family represented Napa in Korea. Goal is site specific wines like Burgundy. Look for best sites in top appellations. John Shafer helped them a lot looking for vineyards. Livingston-Moffet in Rutherford. Hershey - Howell Mtn. 80% planted from scratch there & bio dynamic & dry farm. Crystal Springs-Lotus - high elevation vineyards. Sits below Howell Mtn. 1200 feet. & above Calistoga. It’s own niche, sits on a perch. Hand farm because so steep. Lotus - Planted on rock pile.
Crystal Springs not Rocky.

Helms-1883 first planted, organic since 2008, property purchased 2005 by Dana.

3 winemaking areas for each vineyard wine to keep them individual.

Helms is Softer, elegant benchland, soil here is cobble & red soil gives it violet floral notes & blackberry & a cocoa powder flavor called Rutherford dust.

This wine...Nice sweet aromatic edge, showing bright plum, & cherries with hints of blackberries. Tense firm loamy purple flavors. A touch lean & chewy.

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