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Local women winemakers celebrate Women’s History Month with March 28 tasting

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by lauriejervis in Faces Behind the Wine, Food, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, The Business of Wine, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Buttonwood Farm & Winery, Casa Dumetz, Clarissa Nagy, Karen Steinwachs, Women's History Month

Women winemakers, winery owners and managers, viticulturists, enologists and cellar hands will gather on March 28 to taste and toast in celebration of Women’s History Month.

“Long before Congress designated March as Women’s History Month, women have been making wine history here in Santa Barbara County,” said Sonja Magdevski, owner/winemaker of Casa Dumetz, who will host the tasting at her two Los Alamos tasting rooms (Casa Dumetz and Babi’s Beer Emporium).

“Whether at the helm of winemaking, as pioneers Lane Tanner and Kathy Joseph have always been, coming up through the cellar ranks like Lorna Kreutz or, like Megan McGrath, moving into our area because of the allure of Santa Barbara County, our winegrowing region has always included women in winegrowing,” she said.

Karen Steinwachs, winemaker for Buttonwood Farm Winery, with Al Harry tasting, right

Karen Steinwachs, winemaker for Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard, is among the women winemakers who will pour their wines March 28 at Casa Dumetz

The tasting will feature a broad array of wines made by Santa Barbara County’s women, including those from Bonaccorsi, Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard, Cambria, Carhartt, Casa Dumetz, Cebada Vineyard, Cold Heaven, Foley, Harrison-Clarke, Kitá, LaMontagne, Lucas & Lewellen, C. Nagy, Rideau, Riverbench and William-James Cellars in a casual and convivial environment.

“Of the more than 3,400 wineries in California, approximately 10 percent have a woman as their lead winemaker,” said Clarissa Nagy, winemaker for both Riverbench and her own C. Nagy wines.

“We believe the percentage here in Santa Barbara County to be much higher, and we also believe that women supporting our winemaking efforts in the office, the market, the cellar and the vineyard are just as important to the success of our region.  Let’s all stand up and be counted on March 28!”

The public is invited to the tasting, which will be held beginning at 6 p.m at Casa Dumetz, 448 Bell Street, in Los Alamos, CA 93440. The event is free of charge, and will include live music.

For more information, please contact winemaker Karen Steinwachs (Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard) at karen@vintegratedsolutions.com or 805.350.0257.

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Steeped in history, Zaca Mesa celebrating 42 years as Rhone powerhouse

13 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by lauriejervis in Faces Behind the Wine, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Uncategorized, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Bob Lindquist, Eric Mohseni, Ken Brown, Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyard

 

Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyard, one of Santa Barbara County’s oldest vineyards, ranks high in local winemaking lexicon, and this year will celebrate its 42nd anniversary.

It is the vineyard that experimented with various grape varietals to test vineyard suitability, the training facility for some of the area’s most successful winemakers and the first vineyard in the county to plant syrah.

Winemaker Eric Mohseni and Brittney Burrows, Zaca Mesa’s public relations/communications and social media specialist, recently spent a morning tasting me through current releases and leading a tour of the facility.

Los Angeles native Mohseni, who graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a food science degree and chemisty minor, started his extensive wine career in retail as a wine buyer at Wine Country in Long Beach.

In 1997, Mohseni took a harvest job at Enda Valley Vineyards, and got bit by the proverbial wine bug. In 1999, he traveled to Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, for a second harvest, this one at Esk Valley. He credits his time there with honing his love for sauvignon blanc. His own wine label, Osseus, comprises 300 cases of that varietal.

In 2001, Mosheni joined Zaca Mesa as enologist, working his way up to assistant winemaker, associate winemaker and, in 2008, to winemaker.

Today Mohseni’s associate winemaker is Kristin Bryden, and the duo team to produce Zaca Mesa’s current annual production of approximately 35,000 cases of wine.

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The Foxen Canyon Road ranch that houses the vineyard, winery and tasting room is approximately 750 acres, said Mohseni, and is planted to 178 acres — 86 of which are syrah.

Six friends invested in the original property in 1972, and began planting the vineyard in 1973.

Today, just two of the original six remain owners: Brothers Lou and John Cushman, Mosheni said. Ruben Camacho has managed the vineyards for 37 years, Burrows said.

Since few other vineyards existed when Zaca was first planted, the owners experimented by planting many grape varietals to determine which would thrive. The original vineyard included cabernet sauvignon, merlot, zinfandel, riesling, pinot noir, sauvignon blanc, chenin blanc, grenache, chardonnay and syrah.

After two decades of research into the best varietal-by-vineyard match, Zaca Mesa now focuses on the Rhône varieties of syrah, grenache, mourvèdre, viognier and roussanne because they flourish, block by block

“Now, we’re all planted to Rhônes, but for chardonnay,” Mohseni said; that chardonnay now is under contract to another buyer, and the 2013 Zaca Mesa chardonnay is the last vintage bottled from estate chardonnay.

Zaca Mesa's Homage Collection of wines includes this sauvignon blanc from McGinley Vineyard in Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara.

Zaca Mesa’s Homage Collection of wines includes this sauvignon blanc from McGinley Vineyard in Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara.

The 2013 vintage includes five whites and eight reds, both estate and the “Homage Collection” bottling, Mohseni said. The Homage line comprises wine from fruit sourced from other vineyards in 2013: Sauvignon blanc (McGinley Vineyard); pinot blanc and pinot noir (Bien Nacido); and cabernet sauvignon (Vogelzang). The whites are available for tasting and purchase; and the reds will be released in coming months.

The Zaca Mesa winery, visible from the road, was built in 1978 — the same year that vineyard crews planted syrah, making the site the first in Santa Barbara County vineyard to put that varietal into the ground.

The rest, one could say, is history.

Ken Brown was Zaca Mesa’s first winemaker, and among the others who worked at Zaca Mesa are Adam Tolmach (Ojai Vineyard), Jim Clendenen (Au Bon Climat), Daniel Gehrs (Daniel Gehrs Wines) and Bob Lindquist (Qupe).

Using cuttings provided by Gary Eberle, another syrah pioneer, Brown planted syrah in the section of the vineyard known today as Black Bear Block — named for the black bear (or bears) frequenting that area over the years, Mohseni explained —and Lindquist produced Zaca Mesa’s first syrah from that block in 1995.

Because of the syrah grape’s history at Zaca Mesa, and the fact that Santa Barbara County’s cool-climate syrah remains so highly regarded, Mohseni invited the region’s top syrah producers to a clone-based syrah “bull session” Jan. 15 at Zaca Mesa. Read all about it here

I tasted through 10 wines with Mohseni. In order:

2012 Viognier: All neutral oak makes this a lovely mix of melon and minerality. Mohseni utilizes two picks of estate viognier, one at 20 to 21 brix and the second between 22 and 23, and blends the two.

2012 Grenache Blanc: This estate wine comes from the 3-acre block along the road leading to the winery, and shows nice acidity.

2011 Z Blanc: Honey and light spice. This blend of 78 percent roussanne, 17 grenache blanc and 5 viognier showcases the varietals; “these three will always be the base of this wine,” Mohseni said.

2010 Roussanne: Complex, lovely and rounded after barrel aging. Mohseni, like some other winemakers, fondly describes roussanne as “the red wine drinkers’ white wine,” one that “really opens up in the bottle.”

2013 Sauvignon Blanc (Homage Collection): Light and classic.

2010 Z Cuvee: True story: This particular blend is what introduced me to Zaca Mesa more than 16 years ago. This vintage is 54 percent grenache, 34 mourvedre, 6 syrah and 6 cinsault. This cuvee’s varietal ratio varies by vintage, based on the “best and most available” varietals, Mohseni noted. He’s a fan of blends that bring out the best in each varietal.

2012 Grenache: Light and bright with essence of plums. From the Tablas Creek clone — a “workhorse” — this contains about 12 percent viognier, Mohseni said.

2012 Mourvedre: Packed with pepper and smoke, this is another winning expression of this classic Rhone grape. Growing it takes patience, as it’s “slow to ripen.” Zaca farms 15 acres each of grenache and mourvedre, Mohseni said.

2010 Syrah: Big mesquite smoke, and, no doubt, a big seller. This wine represented 10,000 or 12,000 cases of Zaca Mesa’s total that vintage, he noted.

2011 Chapel G Block Syrah: Pure elegance, and Mosheni recommends cellaring until 2023.

Visit zacamesa.com Tasting daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 6905 Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos. (805) 688-9339.

 

 

Longoria Wines trucks winery across Lompoc to new site on East Chestnut Avenue

08 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Winemaking

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Aaron Watty, Lompoc Wine Ghetto, Longoria Wines, Rick Longoria

 

Aaron Watty, assistant winemaker, carefully unloads the first four barrels at Longoria Wines' new Chestnut Avenue facility Thursday.

Under the watchful eye of Longoria, left, Aaron Watty, assistant winemaker, carefully unloads the first four barrels at Longoria Wines’ new Chestnut Avenue facility Thursday.

Early this year, when winemaker Rick Longoria scheduled an early-August relocation from his longtime space in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto to his new winery and tasting room on East Chestnut Avenue, he thought he’d be well ahead of harvest.

Mother Nature, however, holds the cards. All of them.

A warm growing season has hastened the maturation of many grapes, white and red, with the chardonnay and pinot noirs destined for local sparkling wines under harvest as early as the first days of August.

They're in! The first of many barrels trucked to Longoria Wines' spacious new Chestnut Avenue site rest next to Longoria

They’re in! The first of many barrels trucked to Longoria Wines’ spacious new Chestnut Avenue site rest next to the winemaker

When I photographed part of the moving of barrels Thursday morning, Longoria said: “I could have picked some of my first grapes Wednesday, but don’t have a space for them until we move.”

He ended up with his first fruit — from Rita’s Crowne — later on Thursday, according to Diana Longoria Friday.

Throughout the day and into the evening Thursday, the Longoria’s Ghetto winery site was gradually cleared and barrels restocked in the new facility on Chestnut.

Seven 18-wheeler truckloads later, all the barrels had been moved, and the stainless steel tanks were transported via one load on an open flatbed, said Aaron Watty, assistant winemaker at Longoria.

Two Weeks in Wine: June 15 — 30

16 Monday Jun 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, The CCWP Wine Week, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Buttonwood Farm & Winery, Longoria Wines, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, SLO Barrels

Friday-Sunday, June 20-22 — Key to Wine Country: Santa Barbara Vintners has taken the former “Vintners Visa” passport add-on from its festivals (Vintners and Celebration of Harvest) and created a stand-alone event, “Key to Wine Country.” Enjoy special dinners, vineyard hikes, library and vertical tastings, open houses and more. Tickets are limited. For tickets and details on participating wineries, visit  https://www.sbcountywines.com.

Thursday-Sunday, June 19-22 — SLO Wine Country’s ‘Roll Out the Barrels: The 24th annual weekend event opens with Thursday’s “Barrels in the Plaza” food and wine event at Mission San Luis Obispo and continues Friday with winemaker dinners and a passport tasting on both Saturday and Sunday. New this year is Barrel Sample Sunday, during which guests can taste upcoming releases at member wineries. For tickets and more information, visit www.slowine.com

Saturday, June 28 — Red, White & Blue: The 16th annual Red, White & Blues Festival returns to Buttonwood Farm & Winery and this year features headliner Coco Montoya, a former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Opening for Montoya will be Santa Barbara’s own Stiff Pickle Orchestra. Longoria Wines and Buttonwood Farm & Winery, along with the Santa Barbara Blues Society, sponsor the event. Tickets are $40 general and $35 for club members of either Buttonwood or Longoria, or members of the Blues Society. Guests are encouraged to pack a picnic lunch and chairs and purchase wine from either of the sponsoring wineries. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Arts Outreach. Call 805.688.3032 for tickets

 

East to West: Everything’s coming up rosé at Dragonette Cellars

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in East to West: A Tale of Two Harvests, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Brandon Sparks-Gillis, Dragonette Cellars' rosé, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVA, Jen Hart, Jessica Gasca, John Dragonette, Steve Dragonette

“East to West” Revisted:” The vast Santa Ynez Valley appellation encompasses two smaller AVAs: Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara to the east, and the Sta. Rita Hills to the west. At the east end, various Bordeaux grapes thrive in the heat; on the west end, it’s all about pinot noir and chardonnay, which flourish in the fog.

The grenache, mourvedre and syrah grapes harvested from Vogelzang Vineyard last September now comprise the 2013 Rosé, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara.

The labels for Dragonette's new vintage are simple but elegant — a lot like the wine itself

The labels for Dragonette’s new vintage are simple but elegant — a lot like the wine itself

Dragonette’s owner/winemakers released the wine just last week, said Brandon Sparks-Gillis, co-owner with his wife, Michelle. Brothers Steve and John Dragonette and their wives, Jen Hart and Mitchi Dragonette, respectively, round out the team of owners.

The three couples collaborate to carry out all of the winemaking, and most of the marketing and sales of the winery, based in Buellton.

James Sparks, winemaker at nearly Liquid Farm and former assistant winemaker at Dragonette, loads a pallet of empty cases onto the mobile bottling truck

James Sparks, winemaker at nearby Liquid Farm and former assistant winemaker at Dragonette, loads a pallet of empty cases onto the mobile bottling truck

“This wine is a southern French inspired blend of grenache and mourvedre, specially farmed for rosé at the Vogelzang Vineyard,” according to http://www.dragonettecellars.com.

“We harvest these blocks (over) several cool night and early-morning picks, and bring them straight to the winery, where they are gently whole-cluster pressed over a long, slow press cycle to provide just the right amount of skin contact, while gently extracting maximum flavors. We added five percent syrah, which had been bled off the syrah fermenters, for additional complexity and body.”

At 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, Brandon Sparks-Gillis, Steve Dragonette, Jen Hart, Jessica Gasca (national sales director) and small crew of friends starting bottling several new releases, this rosé among them.

Fill 'er up! The 2013 rosé gets pumped into glass on the bottling line

Fill ‘er up! The 2013 rosé gets pumped into glass on the bottling line

I stood in the shadows of the winery, watching and listening to the mesmerizing “clink-clink” of empty glass as Sparks-Gillis stacked case after case of bottles onto the belt. At the end of the bottling line, Gasca labeled and date stamped each full case.

Before breaking for lunch, they’d finished bottling the approximately 950 cases of the new Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara Rosé. That’s a LOT of rosé …

Viola! The finished product: Dragonette Cellars' 2013 Rosé, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara

Viola! The finished product: Dragonette Cellars’ 2013 Rosé, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara

The crew also bottled about 300 cases of the 2012 Vogelzang Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc; 60 cases of Dragonette’s second rosé — the 2013 Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir — and two of the 2012 pinot noirs — roughly 425 cases from Fiddlestix Vineyard, and 175 cases of the Sta. Rita Hills, “Black Label,” Steve Dragonette told me.

Last in the “East to West” series will be a trip back to Lindley Wines when Frankie and Jake bottle some of their new releases.

Chardonnay Symposium Update: SMV Wine Country Association disbands

13 Thursday Feb 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in Commentary, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Clarissa Nagy, James Ontiveros, Nicholas Miller, Paul Lato, Presqu'ile, Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Maria Valley Wine Country Association, The Chardonnay Symposium

The recent news that the popular Chardonnay Symposium would no longer be held in Chardonnay-ville, aka the Santa Maria Valley, now makes a little more sense.

In a news release Tuesday, the Santa Maria Valley Wine Country Association, founder in 2010 of the Chardonnay Symposium, announced that it will dissolve, and has handed over ownership of the annual event to the Dolphin Bay Resort and Spa in Pismo Beach.

The SMVWCA plans to give its “website and collaterals” to the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce, publicist Sao Anash (Muse Management) announced in a news release.

Taking over for the association is a “think tank” of industry volunteers, who will promote the Santa Maria Valley in ways that “are not hemmed in by the restrictions associated with many advocacy group models,” said volunteer member Dayna Hammell.

The Santa Maria Valley was recognized as an American Viticultural Area in 1981, making it Santa Barbara County’s first appellation.

Among the members of the think tank are Nicholas Miller (Bien Nacido Vineyards); vineyard manager Jim Stollberg (Maverick Farming Company); winemaker James Ontiveros (Alta Maria and Native 9); Matt Murphy (Presqu’ile); Katy Westgaard (Presqu’ile Winery); Laura Booras (Riverbench), winemaker Clarissa Nagy (Nagy Wines); Dayna Hammell (Thornhill Companies); winemaker Paul Lato and Anash.

While “ … many of us here in Santa Maria Valley will remain avid supporters and engaged members of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association,” said Presqu’ile’s Murphy, adding that members intend to more “closely align our AVA’s interests with SBCVA, (which is) a testament to the revitalized leadership and vision at the association.”

Morgen McLaughlin, new executive director of the SBCVA, calls the Santa Maria Valley a “jewel in the crown of the Santa Barbara County wine region. As the SBCVA continues to work towards its strategic mission of raising the visibility of Santa Barbara County and its five AVAs, the ideas and input from this new think tank will be vital in assisting our efforts.”

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Chardonnay Symposium moving to Pismo Beach May 16 — 18

04 Tuesday Feb 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Some updates on The Chardonnay Symposium have been posted via Facebook: http://www.thechardonnaysymposium.com.

Since I wrote this story late yesterday, another day’s been added (Sunday, May 18), and the event has been christened “The Chardonnay Symposium 2014: A Gathering of Good Taste.”

And: “Events include a Grand Wine Tasting, focused educational seminar with representatives from top Chardonnay wineries, and a sumptuous multi-course Chardonnay dinner. In conjunction with The Symposium, many Central Coast wineries will offer special promotions and events to complete the experience.”

A full schedule of events and ticket information is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

(My original story follows)

After debuting in the Santa Maria Valley in 2010, the Chardonnay Symposium will relocate to San Luis Obispo County for its fifth year, organizers have announced.

The event will take place May 16 through 18 at the Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa in Pismo Beach.

Central Coast Wine Press photo

Central Coast Wine Press photo

The symposium unites winemakers, sommeliers and food and wine enthusiasts to taste and learn more about “America’s Sweetheart” grape, which is grown throughout Santa Barbara County, especially in the Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley.

The Dolphin Bay Resort and the Cliffs Resort had long been host sites for the World of Pinot Noir (WOPN), but last year organizers of the popular pinot noir event relocated it to the Bacara Resort & Spa north of Santa Barbara.

Dear Harvest: I know you’re out there . . .

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Pinot noir ripening on netted vines at Kessler-Haak Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills

Pinot noir ripening on netted vines at Kessler-Haak Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills on Aug. 9.

On my way to work in Solvang this morning, I passed a truck pulling a trailer containing one bin of red grapes, headed west into Lompoc. I’m pretty sure I recognized the truck as one belonging to a Lompoc Ghetto-based winemaker.

I’m guessing said winemaker was making a grape delivery of either pinot noir or syrah grapes to a winery, his or someone else’s site, and that the grapes were picked this early because they’re destined for sparkling wine. Just my guess.

In the eight years since I first focused my eyes and ears on all things wine, I’ve sensed a shift in the atmosphere every August. Winemakers and vineyard managers spend more time strolling down rows of grapevines, testing grapes’ brix levels at the same time they’re testing the air for temperature and wind speed. They stare up at the sky.

Every day, another of the zillion or so vineyards I pass on my daily commute gets nets flung over its vines. Another day, another netting. (Netting vines is super hard work, just so you know).

When I pass one or more winemakers gathered together, I’ll likely hear fragments of conversation that sound like: ” … When do you think you’ll …  ” or “What about …. ?” and even … “Did you hear .. .?”

One might utter “It’s been warm overnight,” and the other might remark about an August night’s sudden chill. And that’s not the half of it …

So many unknowns go into the execution of an actual grape harvest that it’s a wonder thousands take place daily in these parts. First off, there’s weather to consider — especially heat and … R-A-I-N. (Shush! I didn’t even say the would out loud).

There’s equipment: Picking, transportation and storage. Don’t forgot your gloves and plenty of water. Do we have enough clippers for everyone? Hats? Did I mention water? Will someone please bring some sunscreen … I hear it’s going to be a beautiful morning, out in the vineyard under sunny skies. We’ll be serenaded by song birds — oh, wait. Those will be the hungry swallows, angry that We. Got. Here. First.

This is my love letter to the coming harvest, because it’s just around the next turn, you know.

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Morgen McLaughlin new executive director of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by lauriejervis in Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Morgen McLaughlin has been hired as the new executive director of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association effective April 19 — the day before the organization’s annual Vintners’ Festival in Solvang.

McLaughlin comes to Santa Barbara County from the Finger Lakes Wine Country Tourism Marketing Association, a regional tourism marketing group in Corning, N.Y., said Kurt Ammann, president of the SBCVA board of directors.

McLaughlin replaces longtime executive director Jim Fiolek, who resigned earlier this year.

The SBCVA’s board of directors is “confident and excited to have Morgan joining the team,” said Ammann, general manager of Dierberg Starlane Vineyards.

“Her experience is a perfect fit to thoughtfully grow our organization and significantly increase the benefits for our members. We believe this change comes at a time when the association is poised to increase recognition for the area as a whole and better communicate the unique diversity and quality of the areas vineyards and wines.”

Since 2007, McLaughlin served as president and CEO of the New York association. From 1994 to 2006, she co-owned and managed a small winery and vineyard in Connecticut, where she supervised wine production, grape growing and marketing.

The SBCVA news release notes that during her tenure at Finger Lakes Wine Country, McLaughlin increased the association’s revenues by more than 50 percent, created integrated tourism and wine marketing campaigns and generated significant media coverage for the Finger Lakes region.

McLaughlin earned bachelors of arts degrees in English and secondary education from Boston College.

Ammann said that McLaughlin will relocate to Santa Barbara County with her husband and three sons by June 30. In the interim, following the Vintners’ Festival, she will meet with various member wineries, grape growers and other industry professionals during the weeks of April 21-27, May 16-23 and June 20-27.

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