Launching Bordeaux-style wines in the Napa Valley
Subtitle: Sterling Vineyards, Newton Vineyard, and Forman Vineyard
By: Richard Forman ; interviews conducted by Carole Hicke in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hicke, Carole.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Sterling Vineyards (Calistoga, Calif.); Newton Vineyard (St. Helena, Calif.); Forman Vineyard (St. Helena, Caif.); Vintners -- California -- Interviews.; Wine and wine making -- California -- Napa Valley.; Wine industry -- California -- Napa Valley.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Launching Bordeaux style wines in the Napa Valley; Wine Spectator California wine oral history series.
Description: Childhood in Oakland, CA, and education at UC Davis; working at Stony Hill Vineyard and Robert Mondavi Winery, 1967-1968; developing Sterling Vineyards, 1969-1978: barrel fermentation in French oak, second Merlot in Napa valley, travel, and research in Europe; partner and developer of Newton Vineyard, 1978-1982; owner of Forman Vineyard, 1983 to present: finding the property, innovative building, equipment, tunnels; thoughts on public taste, avant-garde winemaking in Bordeaux-style wines, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot.