Welcome the Vintners Hall of Fame 2011 class
March 12, 2011
The Vintners Hall of Fame is out with its new class of inductees — again going with a compact list of five California wine pioneers. This year skews a bit toward big, familiar brands.
The two living winemaker inductees are Joel Peterson, who founded Zinfandel powerhouse Ravenswood; and Bob Trinchero, owner of the influential Sutter Home and Trinchero labels — and father of White Zinfandel. So, yep, it’s a Zinfandel sort of year. (Paging Larry Turley.) The third living inductee hails from academia: UC Davis professor Vernon Singleton, whose research transformed the wine industry’s understanding of things like barrel aging and tannins;
The hall also has a “Pioneers” category for inductees who died more than 10 years ago. This year’s two Pioneers are Richard Graff, whose hunt for limestone soils would become Chalone Vineyards, and yield one of California’s defining efforts at great Pinot Noir; and August Sebastiani, who built his family’s namesake Sonoma winery into a household name.
These five emerged with the top votes from a long list of nominees provided by the hall’s nominating committee. Voting was conducted by an electoral group of 74, including past inductees and wine writers. (Disclosure: I’m one of the voters.)
This year’s class is rather more staid than last year’s selection of five, which included Bonny Doon’s rabble-rousing founder Randall Grahm and Diamond Creek’s Al Brounstein. The class has also notably shrunk since the 2009 class of seven, which included Warren Winiarski of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Jess Jackson and Schramsberg’s Jack and Jamie Davies. According to Hall spokesman Michael Wangbickler, there’s no specific cutoff for the number of inductees but the hall looks for those with the most votes in each of the two categories.
As with any voting process, there’s sure to be debate about the winners, but this year might also spark some debate about whether a larger class makes things more interesting — especially when two of five are no longer alive. Still, it’s more consistent than the varying class sizes of, say, the Baseball Hall of Fame or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And unlike the RRHoF, inductees won’t have to sing for their induction supper.
Which, incidentally, will take place Feb. 21 at the CIA at Greystone, which houses the Hall of Fame.
Source: http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2010/11/09/welcome-the-vintners-hall-of-fame-2011-class/
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