per V&WM magazine:
http://vwm-online.com/images/kreck/CAPUTO_Most_admired_R3.pdf
Love that Luca Paschina made this list. We drank with him this past weekend. 10 year verticals of Cab Sauv, Franc and Octagon. He’s arguably done more for the VA wine industry than any other. His wines, IMHO are in a class of their own, and are a fantastic alternative to Bordeaux. A great guy - nice to see him get some deserved recognition.
Two critics and an “educator”?
Plus a New York State trade executive?
And a professor?
And a consultant?
Fully 30% of the people on the list aren’t even working for a living.
Heck, they might as well have thrown a Consigliere or two from Southern.
I feel like Kevin Zraly is someone who could be overlooked (or taken for granted) at this point, but is a great inclusion. It would have been something to go to his classes in the World Trade Center but I still found his books an extremely helpful introduction to thinking about wine. He’s a good writer too, which is rare in the wine business, and he explains concepts thoroughly and simply without dumbing down the material. Great teacher.
That “professor”, Carole Meredith, has done more for wine than maybe all of those folks.
An interesting list of folks…some of which make ultimate sense, and others not so much.
Like all wine lists, you can debate the selection till the cows come home (Kansas colloquialism for “forever”).
Tom
Love that Larry Mawby made the list ![[welldone.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/f/fc9709a841aa9379fd892a9cf0b535b05f473b86.gif "[welldone.gif]"){kind=small}
That was my thought as well.
Boisset is the only surprising one to me
Yeah, I don’t know ANYONE who “admires” him…
I enjoyed seeing representatives from Virginia, Michigan and New York on the list. I know most people don’t realize it, but roughly 1/2 of the country’s wineries are in states not named California…
I’ve spent decades in northern Michigan (summers) and Larry was the first vintner in Michigan to draw attention to the possibility that good wines could be made there. Now, they can … and are. So nice to see him included
I was also happy to see Johannes Reinhardt included. Johannes was profiled in Evan Dawson’s “Summer in a Glass” a delightful book profiling the movers and shakers of the Finger Lakes. I had an opportunity to taste his wines last July and was very impressed with the high quality from Johannes and the better wineries of that region (thanks to some excellent guidance from Evan).
Yes … there is life beyond California.
We only drink white in the summer and perhaps 80% comes from either Michigan or the Finger Lakes.
Wow. That is all I have to say.
Or the CEO of St. Michelle…
Really bizarre list that is quite random. Take 5 Berserkers at random, they could come up with a far better list than this.
Not a lot of young people on here either. Joel Peterson makes the list, but Morgan gets overlooked? Is Joel even working?
Some very deserving names on that list. And some not.
Joel, by the way, deserves to be on any list.
Mr. Smyth:
It’s so much better for one’s image when one is out of one’s depth to say nothing at all.
No one here takes him seriously anyway.
You can always quibble with a list like this–should have included so-and-so, should have omitted such-and-such. I was glad to see different regions of the country represented and both genders. I have met Merry Edwards on several occasions and admire her pioneering role as a female in the wine industry of California. I was also happy about the inclusion of Kevin Zraly. Having attended a couple of his wine tastings at the Charlotte Wine and Food Weekend (a biannual event), I react to his enthusiasm about wines and his efforts to spread the joy of wine education and tasting. My list might have included Terry Theise, Davld Schildknecht, and/or Kermit Lynch.
Kermit would have been a good addition.
My DVD lecture material for my introduction to winemaking distance course from UC Davis starred Carole Meredith. It was a nice surprise to discover her a Berserker.