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Uniting their shared ardour for luxurious wine and elite horses, decades-long mates and wine business mavericks Barbara Banke and Peggy Furth have launched a singular luxurious model, WindRacer Wines, hand-crafted with superior grapes sourced from excessive viticulture vineyards on the Northern California coast. The gathering of six single-vineyard wines, which embrace cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir bottlings, takes inspiration from Thoroughbred racehorses.
Lengthy earlier than their involvement within the wine business, Banke and Furth every loved profitable unbiased company careers. As soon as they every arrived in wine nation, they poured their skills into their respective household companies to create world-class wineries: Banke together with her late husband, Jess Jackson, to construct powerhouse Jackson Household Wines, and Furth on the elite Chalk Hill Estates & Vineyards (since offered). Alongside the best way Banke and Furth turned quick mates and colleagues, elevating tens of millions of {dollars} for native charities, collaborating on new enterprise ventures, and sharing a love of horses. At Chalk Hill, Furth constructed an beautiful indoor equestrian heart and present ring for her worldwide dressage horses. Banke in the meantime turned to the racetrack and established the household’s Lexington, Kentucky-based Stonestreet Farms elevating world-class Thoroughbred racehorses.
Their creation of WindRacer luxurious wines is a pure evolution of their friendship, lifelong passions, the mutual observe file for achievement, and attribute drive to provide the perfect. “WindRacer wines are made with fruit from uncommon and particular locations,” stated Furth. “We hope they’ll excite connoisseurs and different lovers who know the extent of element it takes to make wines of this caliber.”
Added Banke, “The world of Thoroughbred racehorses is a rarified ambiance for under the very prime horses. That’s what we hope to attain with WindRacer Wines as nicely, the place solely essentially the most distinctive grapes, given the utmost care are chosen to provide one thing that’s actually particular.”
Simply because the best Thoroughbred horses require pedigree and a nurturing method at each stage of their improvement, so do the Thoroughbred wines from WindRacer. Viticulture Director Shaun Kajiwara tends excessive vineyards all year long to supply the most effective fruit sourcing for Winemaker Nikki Weerts to make minimal intervention, small lot, single-vineyard wines. WindRacer Wines are a spectacular expression of place – fantastically balanced with advanced fruit flavors, nice texture, and a vibrant, pure acidity evocative of their distinctive websites.
The WindRacer 2018 portfolio of luxurious wines embrace two single-vineyard Chardonnays and 4 single-vineyard Pinot Noirs:
- Saralee’s Winery Chardonnay, Russian River Valley – 265 circumstances – SRP $65
- Alexander Mountain Property Chardonnay, Alexander Valley – 208 circumstances – SRP $65
- Bloomfield Winery Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley – 110 circumstances – SRP $75
- Skycrest Winery Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley – 206 circumstances – SRP $75
- Edmeades Winery Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley – 237 circumstances – SRP $75
- Sealift Winery Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast – 237 circumstances – SRP $75
The restricted manufacturing wines are launching first in California, Florida, Kentucky, and New York.
| Pictures courtesy of WindRacer Wines