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oseph Family Vineyards is a partnership of two families. Jon Joseph, president, is a former Wall Street executive with financial market experience in New York, Tokyo and San Francisco. Bill Esselstein, general manager, spent over 40 years practicing public agency law in Menlo Park, CA.
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is on the board of the Alexander Valley
Winegrowers association, while JFV is also a member of the Sonoma
County Grape Growers association, and the Family
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lexander Valley's Cabernet Sauvignon is like no other in the world. It is classical with structure
contributed by its mineral soils; it is intense with fruits of black cherries and currant provided
by its warm weather. We and our winemakers over the years have worked diligently to extract the very
best that the appellation has to offer. Our earliest vintages were made by Scott Peterson, of SP
Drummer, who first worked with the storied Andre Tchelistcheff at Conn Creek, and later became one
of the senior winemakers at Kendall Jackson. Scott has preferred classical techniques of extended
maceration and tannic balance. Last year's vintage was made by David Ramey, whose background before
he started Ramey Wine Cellars is an 'A' list of the finest
wineries in the world, including Chateau Petrus, Rudd, Chalk Hill and Dominus. For us, David was
a 'minimalist' in the true French sense:
natural yeast, no acid, and no filtering. We are eternally grateful for the trajectory of excellence
these two winemakers set us on and whose styles we will, in our own winemaking, continue to honor.
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