Apr 8, 2021
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner Press Restaurant in St. Helena, Calif., has a new wine director. After stints at renowned destinations including Grand Award winners Gary Danko and the French Laundry, Vincent Morrow will now oversee the list at the Napa restaurant, which claims the largest selection of Napa Valley wines in the world.
“I feel more humbled than anything else,” Morrow told
Wine Spectator. “[Napa] is still very much a farming community … and I really tread carefully with taking over the wine list.”
While he’s looking forward to contributing to the program, Morrow stresses that he’ll stay true to the vision of the restaurant’s founder, late vintner Leslie Rudd, as well as his daughter and current owner, Samantha Rudd. “It’s always been what Leslie had in mind: Put those three things the food, the people, the wine on a pedestal.”
Big plans revealed for Sassicaia estate as it celebrates 50 years 17th March, 2021 by Patrick Schmitt
In an exclusive interview last week, Sassicaia ambassador Priscilla Incisa della Rocchetta told
the drinks business that big plans were afoot for the Tuscan estate as it marks 50 years since its first wine was made for commercial release.
Having unveiled the 2018 Sassicaia to the trade and press last month, Priscilla said that the latest release marked the 50
th year since Sassicaia’s inaugural commercialised harvest – which was 1968 – although not strictly the 50
th vintage, as the estate chose not to make a wine in 1969 and ’73.
Prior to the 1968 harvest, the wines from Tenuta San Guido were a “private affair”, only to be consumed at the estate.