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APRIL NEWS at Lewis Cellars in Napa. Widaman is the former winemaker at Pahlmeyer Winery in Napa Valley, and Nelson comes to Lewis from Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery in Sonoma. Details: lewiscellars.com. in Clearlake Oaks. Steele worked in winemaking with his father Jed Steele at Steele Wines and also is the former research and development winemaker for Bodega Catena Zapata in Mendoza, Argentina. Details: brassfieldestate.com. La Follette Wines opens tasting room Sapporo Osaka shima Greg La Follette, founder and winemaker of La Follette Wines, opened a public tasting room at The Barlow in Sebastopol. The Barlow is a marketplace development planned to be home to other wineries, breweries and gourmet food companies. Details: lafollettewines.com. Montelena placed on historic register Calistoga-based Chateau Montelena Winery has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its construction in 1888 and for the period of its revival from 1968 to 1976, which included theTokyo pivotal 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting. Nagoya Details: montelena.com. N O RTH WEST Madevon joins Culmina Pascal Madevon is the new vineyard manager and winemaker at Culmina Family Estate Winery in Oliver, B.C. Madevon has more than 20 years of experience at wineries in Bordeaux and the South Okanagan Valley. Details: culmina.ca. Associate winemaker joins Okanagan Hahn promotes new president Tony Baldini is the new president of Hahn Family Wines. Baldini joined Hahn Family Wines in 2011 as the general manager overseeing operations at Hahn Estate in the Santa Lucia Highlands and at Cycles Gladiator in Lodi. Details: hahnfamilywines.com. n Matt Dumayne is the new associate winemaker for Okanagan Crush Pad winery in Summerland, B.C. Dumayne is a native of New Zealand and has worked at wineries there as well as in California, Oregon and Australia. Details: okanagancrushpad.com. Argyle founder to focus on own brand Rollin Soles is leaving the role of winemaker at Argyle Winery to focus on buildCameron Vawter was promoted to the post ing his ROCO Winery, which he operates of winemaker at Dana Estates winery in with his wife, Corey Stonebraker-Soles. Rutherford. Prior to his promotion, VawSoles founded Argyle in Dundee, Ore., and ter held the position of director of produchas 5/17/06 10:57 AM Page 1 AlainFouquet_Aug06 worked there for the past 27 years. Detion at Dana. Detail: danaestates.com. tails: rocowinery.com. Winemaker promotion at Dana Lewis Cellars hired winemaker Josh Widaman. Winemaking hires at Lewis Cellars Josh Widaman is the new winemaker and Steve Nelson the new assistant winemaker Tasting Room Focus Analysis, Best Practices & Trends: A newsletter for managers of tasting rooms, wine clubs and DTC wine sales. A monthly email newsletter with the latest: • xpert advice about tasting E rooms, inside sales, wine clubs, leadership, online marketing and data metrics; • irect-to-consumer (DtC) and D wine flash sales analysis; • Featured tasting room suppliers. April features CONTENT PREVIEW Varietal Tasting Event: The big crowd Varietal Tasting Event: The regional crowd April advertisers 1930 Model AA Ford Flatbed Truck Checkfront Sign up today! Email trf@winesandvines.com Or visit winesandvines.com/TRF www.alainfouquet.com alainfouquet@aol.com Win es & Vi n es A PRI L 20 13 25