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Wine for Normal People

Ep 183: Jennifer Williams, Star Napa Winemaker of Arrow&Branch

Wine for Normal People

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

One of the rising stars of Napa Valley, Jennifer Williams is winemaker for Arrow&Branch in Coombsville, a cooler Napa AVA, as well as for her own brand, Zeitgeist, which she runs with her husband (also a winemaker).

Jennifer shares her story of working with and learning from legendary winemakers such as Rosemary Cakebread and Francoise Peschon and time working at cult wineries Araujo and Spottswoode, where she was head winemaker.

We talk about Napa's future, Cabernet, the importance of vineyard in Napa, and how Jennifer balances her busy life.

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0:00.0

Thanks for

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downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,

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the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.

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I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.

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And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.

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We've got Jennifer Williams, who's the head winemaker at Arrow and Branch in Coosville, California, in Napa.

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It's a small Appalachian in Southern Napa,

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and we're going to learn all about it in the

0:34.2

podcast. Jennifer is the consulting winemaker on a bunch of projects and has her own

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small wine project with her husband, which we'll ask her about in a second, called

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Zeitgeist. Now the San Francisco Chronicle named Jennifer a winemaker to watch in

0:49.3

2007 and Women for Wine Sense awarded her a Rising Star in 2010.

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She's one of the future leading winemakers of Napa for sure.

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And I am so honored to have you here with us today as part of our women's history month

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Bonanza of female winemakers that rock.

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Thanks for coming on the podcast, Jennifer.

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Thank you for having me.

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Let's talk about you, because this is always the most fascinating part of this story and really does inform so much about winemaking and who people are.

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So you grew up in rural California and outside of San Diego, so southern rural California.

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And I think, so I lived out in California and I lived in the Bay Area, but I feel like there's this entire different world.

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Did you live in that rural world?

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Like can you talk about what it was like to grow up in rural California?

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