I didn’t want to take the Laube topic off its track, but I saw a post referencing Pecota there and have to ask if Bob Pecota is still making wine. I have a special connection to him because he was the first winery owner/winemaker I ever came in contact with personally. It had to be right after he got into the business in the late '70s.
I had recently moved to San Mateo from SoCal and my wife and I had dinner one night at a now closed restaurant somewhere out in the Richmond District of San Francisco (my brain says The Blue Boar?). The wine we had with dinner was from Pecota and I wanted to be able to buy it at retail so I looked up Robert Pecota winery and called. The phone rang and a voice came on and said “Bob Pecota here!”. That was how I first got into one of the major the joys of living/visiting in the Bay Area. I don’t recall how I actually bought the wine, but I did.
I knew he’d sold the winery to Jackson a few years ago, and there is a Google-able reference to his starting up again from Napa Wine Project several years ago, but now the only references I find are to Robert Arnold Selections, an importer. Is that what he is doing now? Did he do, or is he still doing a new Napa project?
After all these years I still recall that phone call like it was yesterday. Thanks for any info.