100: Frederick Ammons - Rudd Estate
12/10/19 • 98 min
This episode features Frederick Ammons, Winegrower for Rudd Estate in the Napa Valley. Our conversation covers Frederick’s education in Bordeaux, his early jobs in California, his stint at Seavey Vineyard, the building of The Napa Valley Reserve where he made wine for nine years, and his current position at Rudd Wines. We spend the majority of our time discussing philosophical and practical viticulture touching upon organic and biodynamic practices. The central role of robust ecology and biological diversity both in vineyard soils and wine fermentation is a core theme that weaves throughout all of Frederick’s work in the vineyard and in the winery.
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Rudd Estate, Napa Valley
- Dry Creek Vineyard, Sonoma Valley
- Seavey Vineyard, Napa Valley
- The Napa Valley Reserve
- Plumpjack Winery, Napa Valley
- Kelli White’s, Guild Somm article on biodynamic farming. Photo of the weed crimping roller used at Hanzell Vineyard
- Wine yeast DNA Fingerprinting analysis from ETS Labs
- Article - Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming - Mader, et. al.
- Book’s mentioned
- Le sol, la terre, et les champs, pour retrouver une agriculture saine by Claude and Lydia Bourguignone
- Vinification et Fermentation : Les Méthodes biologiques appliquées à la vinification et à l'oenologie by Max Leglise
- La vigne et le vin entre Ciel et Terre by Max Leglise
This podcast is brought you by Scott Laboratories -- For over eighty years, Scott Laboratories has been the leader in providing the North American specialty beverage industry with innovative solutions and products including fermentation goods, filtration media, equipment, packaging products and laboratory services. Scott Labs is introducing their new website, which features online ordering, order history, and a technical library. They can be reached at 707 765-6666.
- Scott Laboratories new website
- Managing Diacetyl from their technical library
if you learn something from the collection of podcasts at Inside Winemaking, please considering donating to support the show. Paypal links at the bottom of the Inside Winemaking homepage. Every small donation is helpful.
This episode features Frederick Ammons, Winegrower for Rudd Estate in the Napa Valley. Our conversation covers Frederick’s education in Bordeaux, his early jobs in California, his stint at Seavey Vineyard, the building of The Napa Valley Reserve where he made wine for nine years, and his current position at Rudd Wines. We spend the majority of our time discussing philosophical and practical viticulture touching upon organic and biodynamic practices. The central role of robust ecology and biological diversity both in vineyard soils and wine fermentation is a core theme that weaves throughout all of Frederick’s work in the vineyard and in the winery.
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Rudd Estate, Napa Valley
- Dry Creek Vineyard, Sonoma Valley
- Seavey Vineyard, Napa Valley
- The Napa Valley Reserve
- Plumpjack Winery, Napa Valley
- Kelli White’s, Guild Somm article on biodynamic farming. Photo of the weed crimping roller used at Hanzell Vineyard
- Wine yeast DNA Fingerprinting analysis from ETS Labs
- Article - Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming - Mader, et. al.
- Book’s mentioned
- Le sol, la terre, et les champs, pour retrouver une agriculture saine by Claude and Lydia Bourguignone
- Vinification et Fermentation : Les Méthodes biologiques appliquées à la vinification et à l'oenologie by Max Leglise
- La vigne et le vin entre Ciel et Terre by Max Leglise
This podcast is brought you by Scott Laboratories -- For over eighty years, Scott Laboratories has been the leader in providing the North American specialty beverage industry with innovative solutions and products including fermentation goods, filtration media, equipment, packaging products and laboratory services. Scott Labs is introducing their new website, which features online ordering, order history, and a technical library. They can be reached at 707 765-6666.
- Scott Laboratories new website
- Managing Diacetyl from their technical library
if you learn something from the collection of podcasts at Inside Winemaking, please considering donating to support the show. Paypal links at the bottom of the Inside Winemaking homepage. Every small donation is helpful.
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This episode features Chris Tynan, who is the winemaker at Cliff Lede Vineyards in Napa. Chris also has his own small brand, Christopher Tynan Wines. Our conversation covers Chris’ background, high-end Cabernet production, and a couple of varietals that haven’t had much attention to date on the podcast, Sauvignon vert, and Semillon
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Cliff Lede Vineyards - Napa Valley
- Christopher Tynan Wines - Napa Valley
- Colgin Cellars - Napa Valley
- Blankiet Estate - Napa Valley
- Cain Vineyard and Winery - Napa Valley
- Youtube Video interview with Henri Jayer
This podcast is brought you by 360viti, powered by Fruition Sciences -- You may already know them as the pioneer in sap flow sensors and vineyard monitoring. In Episode 72 of podcast Thibaut Scholasch from Fruition Sciences talked in-depth about sap flow monitoring and the viticultural services that he and his team have developed.
Now, based on 10 years of vineyard measurements and data science expertise, Fruition Sciences launched 360viti. 360viti is a unique web platform to help winegrowers quickly and easily analyze vineyard data, while storing it all in one central location!
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This episode’s guest is Adam Casto from Gandona Winery in Napa. We had a great conversation ranging on topics from winemaking philosophy, the Antipodes (I had to google it too), and the new ways Adam would like to gather and organize both vineyard and winemaking observational data with analytical tracking.
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Gandona Winery, Napa Valley
- Dana Estates, Napa Valley
- Laing Limit, work by Australian psychologist David Laing reporting that people can only pick out by smell four or less distinct smells from a complex mixture. The book The Nose Knows by Avery Gilbert covers this is more depth.
This podcast is brought you by Wine Compliance Alliance. Ann Reynolds, who runs Wine Compliance Alliance has been on the podcast twice before. In Ep. 45 we discuss common compliance issues that wineries deal with and in Ep. 61 she has a solo episode where she covers the compliance items for starting a new winery.
Winery compliance. Bring it up to winery owners or their staff and you get either a completely blank look or a grimace of some sort. In other words winery compliance is a topic that is either very unfamiliar or very disliked. But yet, every winery is required to do it and can suffer serious consequences if they don't. Wine Compliance Alliance focuses on providing wineries with solutions to both of these areas of issue. If a winery has little familiarity with their compliance requirements our office can provide training assistance to get them up to speed to be able to manage it themselves. If a winery would prefer instead to have their files managed for them we’ve got you covered there too. Wine Compliance Alliance, Full throttle from grape to bottle.
Find out more at winecompliancealliance.com
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