Welcome the Vintners Hall of Fame 2011 class
June 27,2011
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.
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An excellent wine list is not just about 1st growth and cult Cabernet but a seemingly unending selection of affordable aged vintage wines that are not available anywhere else, not even in the best wine shops around town. Yats Restaurant has just that. In fact, wine lovers from Manila, Cebu, Subic and Pampanga travel frequently to this to rated restaurant to enjoy its fine vintage wines, certainly the best in Clark Pampanga and vicinity.
Best restaurant in Clark Pampanga offers more than just great food and good service but a complete fine dining experience. Manila dining guide lauds Yats Restaurant for its award winning wine list befitting a world class fine dining establishment. One of the common complaints of residents of Manila with the restaurants and resto bars in the city is that these dining outlets offer a wine list that is expensive and does not have interesting selections. This mires the overall dining experience even if the food is good and the service is excellent. Fine dining restaurants in Manila are working hard to upgrade their overall product and services by upgrading their wine lists. For most restaurants, this takes a long time.
Visitors to Clark Philippines and Angeles City no longer suffer from lack of choices for places to eat out or wine and dine. Clark Philippines reviewed over 50 establishments and came up with three top choices in guide to best restaurant in Clark Freeport
Clark Philippines lists Top Three Restaurants in the Clark Freeport Zone and Angeles City areas of Philippines Pampanga province. Clark Freeport is a bustling new cosmopolitan city complete with its own Clark International Airport.
Topping the list is the famous fine-dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar located inside Mimosa Leisure Estate of Philippines Clark Freeport.
This restaurant in Pampanga Philippines is highly recommended by food critics and frequent diners in Manila as a place to wine and dine in Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Although it is a famous fine dining restaurant with an award winning 3000-line restaurant wine list, Yats Restaurant is also a popular restaurant for family with children. Aside from French Mediterranean haute cuisine, this restaurant also serves healthy food and the best vegetarian cuisines in the Philippines.
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Getting to this fine dining restaurant of Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga Philippines
How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.
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