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Fog Crest Vineyard The Rosé Hour Podcast
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This week we speak with Orion Brown of the Black Travel Box and Jerome Chery of Fog Crest Vineyard.
About the Black Travel Box
Travel is growing in our community. More of us are exploring the world with a level of freedom that our ancestors could only dream of.
Orion started BlackTravelBox® to give women of color a brand they could trust for their travel personal care needs. As Black travelers, we have few places we can find products that work for our hair and skincare needs.
Our brand is here to help you travel in confidence. We give you the products you need to put your best foot forward and rock those selfies. We're there, where ever your travels may take you.
Fog Crest Vineyard
James Manoogian has had a life-long fascination for food and wine. As a restaurateur in San Francisco, California, the proximity to the great wine-growing regions near the city allowed he and his wife, Rosalind, to become knowledgeable about wine, how it accompanied fine dining, and where each varietal (grape type) excelled locally.
In 1997, the Manoogians looked north and started searching for an appropriate parcel suitable to growing great grapes for distinctive wines. Attracted to Sonoma County for its beauty and viticultural diversity, they found an ideal 30-acre site situated on a ridge above the Santa Rosa Plain – the future home of Fog Crest Vineyard.
Once the vineyard was established and producing fruit it immediately attracted the attention of fine winemakers. For five years the vineyard’s grapes were bottled as a vineyard designate by Stryker Sonoma under the name of “L’Ancien Verger Vineyard” which in French means “the Old Orchard”. The 2005 Estate Bottled Chardonnay, marked the inaugural vintage for Fog Crest Vineyard and the Manoogians.
JÉRÔME CHÉRY, WINEMAKER
After winery stints in Provence, Loire Valley, Australia’s Swan Valley and the Languedoc region, in 1997 Jérôme came to California to be Assistant Winemaker at Napa Valley’s Newton Winery. “I was 27 years old and Newton was already becoming famous for unfiltered Chardonnay,” he says. “Newton was using native yeasts and longer aging times.”
In 2000, Jérôme wanted to continue his focus on Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. “I think that the motto ‘less is more’ works wonderfully well with the two famous Burgundy varieties, so I took a job at Littorai working with Ted Lemon,” he says. “Ted was making really fine Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, specializing in single-vineyard bottlings. He made limited production wines that were terroir driven. It was amazing. Here, I really learned.”
Jérôme became Director of Winemaking at Saintsbury in 2004. “I walked in and harvest started three days later. The production was huge compared to what I had been doing, but I stayed for 9 years. I learned to work with cool-climate Carneros fruit and introduced four, single vineyard releases. I also sourced fruit from the Anderson Valley, complementing what we already had.”
Believing memorable wines are made on a small scale with the highest quality grapes, Jérôme became winemaker at Fog Crest Vineyard in January 2014. “I really wanted to relocate to western Sonoma County; the quality of the fruit here is wonderful,” Jérôme says. “I will wait to see what the next harvest brings; I hope to add refinement to the wines.
Jérôme enjoys traveling for work and pleasure. At home, he relaxes by gardening, landscape designing and cooking.
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This week we speak with Orion Brown of the Black Travel Box and Jerome Chery of Fog Crest Vineyard.
About the Black Travel Box
Travel is growing in our community. More of us are exploring the world with a level of freedom that our ancestors could only dream of.
Orion started BlackTravelBox® to give women of color a brand they could trust for their travel personal care needs. As Black travelers, we have few places we can find products that work for our hair and skincare needs.
Our brand is here to help you travel in confidence. We give you the products you need to put your best foot forward and rock those selfies. We're there, where ever your travels may take you.
Fog Crest Vineyard
James Manoogian has had a life-long fascination for food and wine. As a restaurateur in San Francisco, California, the proximity to the great wine-growing regions near the city allowed he and his wife, Rosalind, to become knowledgeable about wine, how it accompanied fine dining, and where each varietal (grape type) excelled locally.
In 1997, the Manoogians looked north and started searching for an appropriate parcel suitable to growing great grapes for distinctive wines. Attracted to Sonoma County for its beauty and viticultural diversity, they found an ideal 30-acre site situated on a ridge above the Santa Rosa Plain – the future home of Fog Crest Vineyard.
Once the vineyard was established and producing fruit it immediately attracted the attention of fine winemakers. For five years the vineyard’s grapes were bottled as a vineyard designate by Stryker Sonoma under the name of “L’Ancien Verger Vineyard” which in French means “the Old Orchard”. The 2005 Estate Bottled Chardonnay, marked the inaugural vintage for Fog Crest Vineyard and the Manoogians.
JÉRÔME CHÉRY, WINEMAKER
After winery stints in Provence, Loire Valley, Australia’s Swan Valley and the Languedoc region, in 1997 Jérôme came to California to be Assistant Winemaker at Napa Valley’s Newton Winery. “I was 27 years old and Newton was already becoming famous for unfiltered Chardonnay,” he says. “Newton was using native yeasts and longer aging times.”
In 2000, Jérôme wanted to continue his focus on Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. “I think that the motto ‘less is more’ works wonderfully well with the two famous Burgundy varieties, so I took a job at Littorai working with Ted Lemon,” he says. “Ted was making really fine Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, specializing in single-vineyard bottlings. He made limited production wines that were terroir driven. It was amazing. Here, I really learned.”
Jérôme became Director of Winemaking at Saintsbury in 2004. “I walked in and harvest started three days later. The production was huge compared to what I had been doing, but I stayed for 9 years. I learned to work with cool-climate Carneros fruit and introduced four, single vineyard releases. I also sourced fruit from the Anderson Valley, complementing what we already had.”
Believing memorable wines are made on a small scale with the highest quality grapes, Jérôme became winemaker at Fog Crest Vineyard in January 2014. “I really wanted to relocate to western Sonoma County; the quality of the fruit here is wonderful,” Jérôme says. “I will wait to see what the next harvest brings; I hope to add refinement to the wines.
Jérôme enjoys traveling for work and pleasure. At home, he relaxes by gardening, landscape designing and cooking.
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55 min