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68 WINES&VINES May 2016 D uring the 2015 harvest, the staff at Benovia Winery in California broke in a new winery dedicated to red wine production. The new facility was part of a larger expansion that also included a new vineyard and tasting room. In ad- dition to providing the winemaking team with better equipment and more space, the expansion is also the beginning of the next phase in the history of the Russian River Valley estate winery. Founders Joe Anderson and his wife Mary Dewane came to Sonoma County after purchasing the Cohn Vine- yard near Healdsburg, Calif., in 2003. Before joining the wine business, Anderson and Dewane both enjoyed suc- cessful careers in the health care industry. Anderson was the co-founder of a Phoenix-based health plan services firm that operated in eight states; he sold the company to Aetna in 2007 for $535 million. As he was leaving health care, Anderson saw the potential of the Cohn Vineyard through the critical suc- cess of wineries—Kosta Browne and Williams Selyem produced acclaimed wines using grapes from the vine- yard—and decided he wanted to launch a winery. In 2005, Anderson and Dewane purchased what was then known as Hartman Lane Vineyards and Winery, which had been built by Cecil DeLoach. Anderson and Dewane came up with the name of their winery by combining the names of their fathers, Ben Dewane and Novian Anderson. After buying the Hartman Road winery, the owners brought on winemaker Mike Sullivan, who had been racking up high scores and critical acclaim while making wine for about a decade at nearby Hartford Family Winery. Sullivan not only would be the winemaker for the new Benovia Winery but a partner as well. Benovia Winery Russian River Valley winery expands with new facility for red wine production By Andrew Adams TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT The winery's new open-top tanks by Westec all are equipped with heating and cooling jackets on the tank sides and bottoms.

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