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Winemaker Interview Jeff Cohn
Vintner discusses custom yeast choices and managing difficult fermentations By Laurie Daniel
& Wales University in Providence, R.I., and a bachelor's degree in hospitality management from Florida International University in Miami. As he toiled in the hospitality industry, Cohn's interest in wine increased.
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inemaker Jeff Cohn didn't start out in the wine industry. In the 1980s he received an associate's degree in cu- linary arts from Johnson
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for Boordy Vineyards in Maryland during the early 1990s, Cohn knew that his future was in winemaking. He moved to Califor- nia, earned a master's degree in agriculture chemistry at Fresno State University and took a job as an enologist at Rosenblum Cellars in Alameda, where he was pro- moted to winemaker in 2000. Meanwhile, Cohn had started his own label, JC Cellars, in 1996, the same year he graduated from Fresno State. In 2006 he left Rosenblum
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