Napa, CA August 2, 2022 – As harvest kicks off in Napa this week, Domaine Carneros Vineyard is happy to announce the appointment of Tim Rowe, seasoned viticultural knowledgeable with over a decade of spectacular positions inside the California wine trade, to the place of Winery Supervisor. Succeeding Alberto Zamora, who’s retiring after a 40-year profession within the wine trade, ten of which have been spent remodeling the vineyards at Domaine Carneros, Rowe states that his new place is a viticulturist’s dream. “With 400 acres within the Carneros AVA encompassing a range of clones and rootstocks, the property vineyards are like a dwelling laboratory,” he notes. Rowe appears to be like ahead to working with the winemaking group to nuance the totally different clonal expressions within the wines. “The chance to handle six property vineyards all inside just a few miles of the vineyard, which Alberto and the vineyard’s devoted group have cultivated with care and nurturing, is a labor of affection and an unimaginable alternative to go deep with my data base.”
Throughout Zamora’s tenure, he was instrumental within the acquisition of the Tula Vista (2012) and Las Amigas (2016) vineyards, and he additionally replanted 50% of the vineyard’s winery holdings. Of retiring, he acknowledged “I’m leaving the vineyards in a greater, extra sustainable place. I labored exhausting to realize Napa Inexperienced, Fish Pleasant Farming, and California Licensed Sustainable Winegrowing certifications.”
Rowe joins a group, underneath the management of CEO Remi Cohen, that’s devoted not solely to sound environmental practices, but additionally to worker engagement and improvement. Of the brand new place, he shared that the devoted winery group will permit him to nurture the profession targets of the people who make up the crew. This aligns with the prevailing philosophy held by CEO Cohen and her administration group which is to help, mentor, and domesticate from inside the firm. Commenting on Rowe’s rent, she acknowledged “We benefited a lot from the contributions of Alberto over the previous decade, and as we glance forward, Tim is the best match to take us into the long run, constructing on an excellent basis.”
Previous to Domaine Carneros, Rowe, a local Kansan who graduated with an agricultural diploma from the College of Missouri, labored with the winery administration group run by Kirk Grace on the famed Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars within the Napa Valley. Following that, he expanded his data of California AVAs working for LVMH, specializing in the two,000 acres of vineyards for the Domaine Chandon and Newton manufacturers. Subsequent, becoming a member of the modern Monarch Tractor group as its tenth worker working to introduce the world’s first electrical self-driving tractor introduced Rowe into the way forward for farming. His well-rounded expertise dovetails with the forward-thinking mentality of the group at Domaine Carneros. Of becoming a member of the group, he acknowledged “I used to be all the time impressed by the enduring nature of this vineyard, and its popularity for producing among the many greatest home glowing wines preceded it. I look ahead to taking the vineyards to the subsequent stage in high quality and greatest practices.”
ABOUT DOMAINE CARNEROS
Based in 1987, Domaine Carneros displays the hallmark of its founder, Champagne Taittinger, in creating terroir-driven glowing wine and preserving the standard tenets of the normal technique manufacturing. Positioned completely inside the Carneros AVA, between Napa and Sonoma counties, the six property vineyards whole roughly 400 acres with 125 acres planted to Chardonnay, 225 acres planted to Pinot Noir, with the remaining acres presently in improvement. The vineyard focuses on making ultra-premium Carneros glowing wines and restricted manufacturing Pinot Noirs.
Domaine Carneros’ château has change into a landmark and image of the area. The structure and inside design have been impressed by the 18th century Château de la Marquetterie, the historic Taittinger household residence within the Champagne area. Guests to the chateau get pleasure from seated tastings of methode traditionelle glowing wines and small-lot pinot noir within the elegant Jardin d’Hiver or on the broad terrace overlooking the rolling vineyards of Carneros. Domaine Carneros restricted manufacturing wines can be found onsite, through ecommerce, and are distributed nationally by Kobrand Company which, based in 1944, stays one of many few family-owned wine and spirits firms in the USA.
The vineyard locations a excessive worth on preserving the setting and has taken on an enormous array of environmental efforts. The roof of the pinot noir vineyard adjoining to the château hosts a photo voltaic array that was the biggest on any vineyard on the planet when it was put in and continues to be expanded with a state-of-the-art microgrid launching in 2022. The newest award, one in every of many from federal, state and native authorities; was the California Inexperienced Medal for Domaine Carneros’ demonstration of “Sensible Enterprise by means of efficiencies, price financial savings and innovation from implementing sustainable practices.”
