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  • Weather

    8° C Few clouds
  • Time

    00:45 AM
  • Wine average?

    94 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    86
  • Region Ranking?

    9
  • Popularity ranking?

    229

History

Alban Vineyards’ is the first American winery and vineyard established exclusively for Rhone Varieties. Conceived at a time when there were virtually only two “flavors” of wine produced in the U.S., they set out to introduce wine grapes that would offer enophiles a new world of possibilities. Pioneering Roussanne, Grenache Noir, and Viognier to go along with meticulously selected clones of Syrah; Alban Vineyards has guided consumers and producers to the enormous potential of “Rhones” in California.

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Winemaking

 At the age of 24 he had fallen in love with a glass of Condrieu at a time when anything that was neither Cabernet nor Chardonnay was barely grown in California. It had gradually dawned on him that the two big red grapes of the Rhône, Syrah and Grenache, were ideally suited to the climate of California. And so had begun Alban Vineyards amidst a process of furious vine propagation.

Plantings of these varietals have exploded since then; Alban Vineyards provided a large proportion of the cuttings to enable Viognier acreage increase from zero to over 2,000 and that of Syrah from a few hundred to more than 17,000. A human dynamo, John Alban is more than a wine producer: Robert Parker has described him as the “spiritual and qualitative leader of the Rhône Ranger movement”: his impact on wine production in California is not to be understated.

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