– The national Rhone Rangers organization will present its sixth lifetime achievement award on Thursday, Aug. 19, to recognize the significant contributions made by an individual to the American Rhone wine movement. This year’s award will be given to Gary Eberle, founder and owner of Eberle Winery. Honoring Eberle on behalf of the Rhone Rangers will be guest moderator and journalist Matt Kettmann, and special guests Jason Haas of Tablas Creek Vineyard and Jerry Lohr of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines.
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DAN BERGER
If you parsed the worldâs wine grapes into three categories based on widely acknowledged quality, a tiny percentage would be called âgreat,â a few would be very good, and the rest, in the many thousands, would be ordinary just or drinkable.
The Hollywood connection
Working for merchant Dennis Overstreet, Randall was exposed to common-grape greatness. And it was there that he drew connections to paradigmic enological history that only wine lovers of many decades experience ever see. Some never do.
During his retailing days, he had access to classic examples of current wines as well as earlier vintages. That provided him a unique perspective.