A DIAMOND NO LONGER IN THE ROUGH

By Karen MacNeil
February 2, 2017

In 1968, when Boots and Al Brounstein founded their winery Diamond Creek on Napa Valley’s… Continue reading

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“It’s like Audrey Hepburn in the perfect little black dress. It’s not just a black dress—it’s a perfectly-lined black dress, with the perfect strand of pearls, the wrap, the whole thing. It’s not fancy, it’s not overdone. In winemaking, I do that. I don’t make blousy wines. I don’t make wines that are heavily out front. I make wines that you need to pay attention to.”

—Eileen Crane, CEO and Chief Winemaker at Domaine Carneros who retired after 33 years, on her winemaking style.