370: Aaron Miller
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Levy Dalton. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Aaron Miller on the show, |
| 0:25.0 | on the show, Winemaker at Plump Jack Winery in Napa Valley in Oakville. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, sir, how are you? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm wonderful, how are you? |
| 0:31.0 | Very nice to see you. |
| 0:32.0 | You as well? So, Plump Jack's pretty interesting in that it is in Oakville and it's on a historical |
| 0:36.6 | plot that's actually been a vineyard for many, many years. The winery was built in the 1880s and the vineyards have been there for quite a bit longer. |
| 0:44.6 | At that time it was mostly planted to Reesling and Zinfandel, some of the older varietals that people were bringing |
| 0:49.8 | into the Napa Valley, and that piece of land was donated to George Jount by General Vallejo. |
| 0:58.0 | General Vallejo owned a lot of the land in the Napa Valley and a lot of that was given to George Yount as a dowry and |
| 1:05.3 | eventually that land passed through many hands over the years and in the 1880s |
| 1:11.2 | a winery was built on that site, on the Plumpjacks site. |
| 1:14.0 | And that winery was Villamount Eden. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a very historical winery. |
| 1:18.0 | It's still in existence today, just not at our site. |
| 1:20.0 | Now it's being made elsewhere and it's actually different varietals, but the wine label does still exist. |
| 1:26.0 | But Plump Jack came in a little bit later, but back to the 1880s, you know, when this winery was built, |
| 1:32.0 | obviously it was just an old barn with nothing fancy you know it's not |
| 1:37.0 | gold lead certified winery you know it's like we have now at Kaid and no dead or sister wineries, but it did the job. It was functional. |
| 1:45.7 | Eventually, you know, we don't really know that the complete history. We think that |
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