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Restaurant Insider with Anne Lee
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ANNE LEE
speaks with Hartford Family Winery director of winemaking and general manager
JEFF STEWART
Photos by
LAWRENCE TABUDLO
When you hear about Jackson Family Wines, the first name that comes to mind is Kendall-Jackson. Not only is that one of the vineyards, but it’s also one of 40 different brands from vineyards and wineries in California, Oregon, France, Tuscany, Australia, Chile and South Africa.
The winemaker for Hartford Family Winery, Jeff Stewart, and I shared a meal paired with his winesatSurfLanaiinTheRoyal Hawaiian, a Luxury Collection Resort, Waikiki, where Micah Suderman, bi-plex director of food and beverage, had chef Shingo Katsura prepare dishes for us. I was able to learn more about the wine brand, and I also learned that you can get a de- gree in winemaking!
AL: How did you get into this industry?
JS: I grew up in Lake Tahoe and had a chemistry teacher that had gone to UC Davis. He wished he had studied wine- making instead. I was amazed that there was a curriculum to earn a degree in making wines. I enrolled and earned a bach- elor’s in winemaking/grape growing, a little bit of business
and other courses, and started working in Napa Valley in 1986.
AL: Hartford Court is one of the many brands that make up Jackson Family Wines. Tell me the more about this brand. JS: Hartford Family Winery is a highly acclaimed family-owned artisan winery that was found- ed in 1994 by Don and Jenny Hartford. We are an offshoot of the bigger Jackson Family Wines company. Jenny is Jess Jackson’s eldest daughter and employeeNo.2forthecompany back in 1982. Jenny’s daughter Hailey has recently taken over as president of the winery. It is truly a family that passes down their legacy.
Hartford Court and Hartford Wines are made at Hartford Family Winery in Forestville, California, in the heart of Rus- sian River Valley. We are a small winery that does a large variety. We bottle over 40 wines in a year and 36 of those are probably less than 300 cases each. They come from very distinct vine- yards all over the Russian Riv- er and Sonoma Coast, and we branch out to Anderson Valley and Mendocino, up to Oregon, down to Santa Barbara, Santa Rita Hills and kind of everything in between. We are always look- ing for vineyard sides that we consider high personality, the taste of the place ... something that is distinct and unique. They have a single vineyard focus of chardonnays, pinot noirs and old vine zinfandels.
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