During the rainy vintage of 2011, we
visited Mark Topel owner of Topel Winery in Hopland, California and
featured him in Podcast #47. Hopland is located two hours north of
San Francisco in Mendocino county, where Mark was making some
magnificent wines. Topel was sold when Mark retired and now the new
winemaker is Martin Bernal-Hafner. Martin’s experience makes him a
good choice to take up the reigns at Topel Winery. We met with
Martin at his home in Geyserville to talk about the future of Topel,
which is very bright indeed.
You can hear Martin on our Vino Lingo
segment defining the wine term “Complexity”
During the rainy vintage of 2011, we
visited Mark Topel owner of Topel Winery in Hopland, California and
featured him in Podcast #47. Hopland is located two hours north of
San Francisco in Mendocino county, where Mark was making some
magnificent wines. Topel was sold when Mark retired and now the new
winemaker is Martin Bernal-Hafner. Martin’s experience makes him a
good choice to take up the reigns at Topel Winery. We met with
Martin at his home in Geyserville to talk about the future of Topel,
which is very bright indeed.
You can hear Martin on our Vino Lingo
segment defining the wine term “Complexity”
First thing I must say is to give Alex
Holman a great deal of credit for meeting with us to do this
interview. The winery tasting room caught fire the day before our
meeting, but Alex agreed to meet anyway. Notre Vue Estate is located
in the town of Windsor, Sonoma County. Since there was major activity
cleaning up after the fire, we met at their outdoor tasting space on
the hill behind the winery. While Alex is the new winemaker at Notre
Vue, he’s been in the business for quite some time and this is one
crazy way to start a new job.
You can hear Alex on our Vino Vingo
segment defining the wine term “Native Fermentation”
