Owners John Smookler and Heidi Hu ran popular New York City ramen destination Mu Ramen before they moved to the Bay Area during the pandemic. Wine Country residents are flocking Animo, a Basque-Korean restaurant that opened without much fanfare in February. Sonoma’s newest fine-dining restaurant has found an unlikely home, sandwiched between a McDonald’s and an auto repair shop off Highway 12. Helena, īasque-Korean fusion makes waves in Sonoma Visitors who don’t want to pony up $1,000 can opt for the winery’s single-vineyard Cabernets (paired with cheese and charcuterie) tasting for $125-$150 per person.Ĥ36 St. In line with the price tag, the interior design of the stone tasting room has gone from a dark and dated room with a lone tasting bar to a bright and elegant space that looks more like a fine dining restaurant than a winery. the same buyers of Napa’s Stony Hill and Burgess - and was closed for renovations until last month. It sold in 2018 to the Lawrence Family and Carlton McCoy Jr. Founded in 1961, Heitz is one of the most iconic wineries in Napa. It includes two vineyard visits, a stop at the original 130-year-old wine cellar and a tasting with library selections. Now, its new Vineyard to Bottle Experience costs $1,000.
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Check back in April for the next edition and you can find February’s installment of this series here. Stay on top of important wine stories with Wine Spectator's free Breaking News Alerts.Read on for details on all the notable openings in Napa and Sonoma counties. "Hopefully is the first of many," he said. We're looking at a long-term family involvement."īoyd explained that the Lawrence family had been looking to get involved in the wine business for some time.
Boyd said that the goal is not to change, increase production or grow the business. Gaylon Lawrence's daughter Westin lives in Napa and will become involved in the business. "We are looking forward to making more vintages of Heitz Martha’s in the future and have no plans to change our goal of producing the highest quality organic Cabernet Sauvignon grapes possible."īoyd added that the fact this is a family-to-family transaction will make it easier to keep the original focus in place. "The May family is excited about working with the Lawrence family," Laura May Everett, whose family owns Martha's Vineyard, told Wine Spectator. "There are no plans to make stylistic changes." They hope to maintain current contracts with vineyards, including Martha's Vineyard. "There's no desire to change what we're doing from a winemaking perspective," Boyd told Wine Spectator. Boyd says that bottlings, vineyard sources, the current 40,000-case production and the winemaking team-minus David Heitz, who will be stepping aside-are expected to remain in place. Lawrence has appointed wine industry veteran Robert Boyd, who has previously worked with Kendall-Jackson and Joseph Phelps Vineyards, as the new president and CEO of Heitz. By that point his children had taken over operations, David Heitz as winemaker and Kathleen Heitz-Meyers as chief operating officer. He worked for Gallo and Beaulieu Vineyard in Napa Valley under André Tchelistcheff before starting his own brand. Joe Heitz founded Heitz Cellars in 1961 a native of Princeton, Ill., he came to California in the 1940s while serving in the Army Air Corps. The Lawrences are based in Memphis, Tenn. The family also owns dozens of local banks, and hold a stake in one of the country's largest privately owned heating, ventilation and air-conditioning distributors. His family owns farmland in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, where they own one of the state's largest citrus grove operations. Lawrence is new to the world of wine, but not agriculture. In the wine business we are all farmers, and with the Lawrence family's history in agriculture, we feel Heitz Cellars will be in good hands." "When we met with Gaylon, it seemed a perfect match. "We feel this is the right time for us to pass this rich legacy to another family," said Kathleen Heitz-Myers. The sale includes more than 400 acres of vineyards. The owners of Heitz Cellars, one of the dominant producers in Napa Valley during its formative years, a champion of single-vineyard expressions and creator of one of Napa's most distinctive and collectible wines, the Cabernet Sauvignon Martha's Vineyard, have sold the winery to Gaylon Lawrence Jr.
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