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Remembering 2 California Wine Pioneers
Clendenen was 68. Bruce was 89.
These men were iconic figures in California’s world of fine wine, but not in the way many people think of domestic wine history: They were producers of great cabernet sauvignons that can win head-to-head contests with mighty Bordeaux.
Cabernet put California on the international wine stage. Today’s cabs command outrageous prices and are considered highly collectible the world over.
What Clendenen and Bruce did, with far less public recognition, was shine a spotlight on two grape varieties that decades ago had checkered histories and were always poorly understood. Their efforts helped fixed that.