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  • Stoller Vineyards
    The Stoller Vineyard produces world class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from their estate vineyard in the Dundee Hills. The wines are crafted in their Gold LEED-certified, environmentally-friendly winemaking facility.They also provide grapes to some of Oregon's finest producers, including Chehalem, DDO, and Argyle.
  • Torbreck Vineyards
    Torbreck winemaker David Powell crafts wine that reflects the character of Australia's Barossa Valley and are as monumental as any of the world's greatest.
  • Baker Lane
    The Baker Lane Pinot Noir and Syrah Stephen Singer produces combine the best of both the old and new worlds- bold fruit is balanced by an elegant tannin structure, easily identifiable as being from Sonoma.
  • Peter Mathis Wines
    Peter Mathis has spent many years as the behind-the-scenes winemaker at Ravenswood. Nowadays, he produces minuscule quantities of fantastic Grenache grown in his own vineyard in Sonoma.
  • The Brander Vineyard
    Located in the Santa Ynez Valley, Fred Brander and The Brander Vineyard has for more than thirty years produced a range of Sauvignon Blancs rivaling the greatest in the world. The winery is also becoming known for its wines made from the Bordeaux varieties, as well as locally grown Syrah.

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About Dan Fredman

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I’ve spent the last 25+ years in and around the retail wine business. I’m an inveterate (and unregenerate) winegeek, initially supporting my wine habit by working part-time for several Los Angeles area wine retailers. This eventually led to chronic full-time employment with retailers/importers such as Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant in Berkeley and The Grateful Palate in Oxnard (multi-hemispherical doesn’t always equate to bi-polar)!

Ultimately rescued from the Sargasso Sea that my retail career had drifted into, I am now firmly ensconced in the cosmos of wine public relations and marketing. My experience in the wine industry has served to increase the scope of my knowledge of, curiosity about, and evangelical zeal for wine. My client roster is diverse enough to amuse even someone with ADD and includes wines grown on six continents and encompasses old world and new world winemaking styles.

Despite my mother’s admonition to “Never work for friends”, my clients produce wine that I like to drink and they’re the sorts of folks with whom I like to spend time around the dinner table. I offer “PR & Marketing to the thirsty…” Whether they’re thirsty for wine, thirsty for knowledge, or simply thirsty for something a little different in their vinous life, I use my expertise to come up with the means to get their messages heard not only by the media but by my clients’ supply chains and ultimately, the thirsty consumer…

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