{"id":30208,"date":"2024-11-30T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:26:04","slug":"juan-munoz-oca-reveals-the-secret-to-his-favorite-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/11\/30\/juan-munoz-oca-reveals-the-secret-to-his-favorite-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Munoz-Oca Reveals the Secret to his Favorite Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juan Munoz-Oca Reveals the Secret to his Favorite Wine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juan Mu\u00f1oz-Oca is Chief Operation Officer of Vinattieri 1385, the company owned by Marchesi Antinori.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As COO, Mu\u00f1oz-Oca oversees all properties in the United States, some of the most historical and influential properties in Napa Valley: the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/11\/18\/stags-leap-wine-cellars-earns-regenerative-organic-certified-status\/\">Stag\u2019s Leap Wine Cellars<\/a> in the heart of the Stags Leap District and Antinori Napa Valley atop Atlas Peak AVA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Describing himself as \u201cstupidly obsessed with wine,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz-Oca has a true passion not only for making great wine and influencing the way people experience it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Taste the discovery, the wine that sparked Juan Munoz-Oca &#039;s obsession\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzMjJnAIt8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What&#8217;s the most important message you&#8217;d like to share with our audience today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I would love to tell your audience the story about our wine. The stories that decorate our winemaking. We make wine in three different states in the United States, three different wineries. But behind those three different wineries and those three very different terroirs, there&#8217;s the story of an amazing family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been making wine since 1385, and I think that&#8217;s a worthy story to tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can you give us a summary of the story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Antinori family based in Florence has been making wine since 1385.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are now in the 26th generation. Actually half of the 27th generation, it&#8217;s working at the winery. 25th generation Piero Antinori I feel has been transformational for the way in which the world perceives Italian wine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transformational for Tuscany as he single handedly developed super Tuscans as we know him today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I think a very influential figure in the wine world, a very influential family. But a very transformational two generations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25th generation, led by Piero, Marchesi Piero Gennari, and then 26th generation, led by his three daughters, who are incredible, and I love the fact that we run a very successful, historic and iconic wine business and it&#8217;s run by a female by a team of three sisters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That family then branches out into the world led by Marquesi Piero&#8217;s curiosity, and they find themselves in the United States more specifically in Napa, and they settle in a beautiful property atop Atlas Peak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That we call Antica Estate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are 550 acres of pristine vineyards atop Atlas Peak, and Marquesi Piero builds a winery, and immediately starts getting connections around the valley, and strikes a lovely\u00a0 friendship with Warren Winiarski, who was the founder and owner of Stags Leap Wine Cellars, the winner of the Judgment of Paris in 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iconic and historic on its own right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Warren was ready to retire from the day to day of running this beautiful property, his first phone call was to Marquesi Piero. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said, Piero, could you take over the legacy of Stags Leap Cellars? Marquesi Piero was not quite ready at the time to take over, but I think he promised his friend, listen I&#8217;m going to go into a partnership right now, but then at some point, this will end up being part of our family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The partnership started in 2007 with San Michel Wine Estate, which at the time was the importer of the Antinori wines into the U. S. and just ended last summer when Marquesi Piero fulfilled the promise to his buddy and took full ownership of Stag&#8217;s Leap Wine Cellars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now we found ourselves with two wineries in Napa, atop Atlas Peak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the property that brought the Antinori family to the U. S. And then Stags Leap Wine Cellars in the valley floor. Of course, the Stags Leap District AVA, iconic and historic winery in Napa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because that wasn&#8217;t enough this summer in 2024, we took full ownership of the winery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a partnership between Antinori and San Michel, one of the estates up in Washington in Red Mountain, the winery is called Col Solare and sits atop Red Mountain AVA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are the three estates we manage in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also set up an importing company. Self import the Italian and Chilean portfolio of the Antinor family to some of the most beautiful wines made in Italy and Chile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our commercial team gets the privilege of selling imported portfolio alongside the two wineries in Napa and the winery now in Red Mountain, Washington.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incredibly influential family and they were spending a good amount of energy and time developing just three beautiful properties in the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tremendous history. Other than being a wine lover, you call yourself \u201cstupidly obsessed with wine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food, film, fashion, literature, whatever that you&#8217;re into, you&#8217;ll enjoy spending time learning more about it. Wine is not different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I describe myself as stupidly obsessed with wine, just because I spend most of my waking hours thinking about wine, thinking about how I can deliver a more enjoyable experience through our winemaking. A craft that we do that has an end, and that end is the experience of opening a bottle of wine to celebrate something special or having one of our wines at a restaurant when you are taking your significant other out to celebrate an anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0think in order for us to deliver a wonderful experience, we have to know every detail that goes into creating that experience from growing the grapes and making the wine all the way to articulating the storytelling that decorates the wine because that&#8217;s part of the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a young wine lover and more\u00a0 that I work for an Italian family, I remember hearing people tell me, \u201cI spent some time this summer in Tuscany, and I had this very inexpensive Chianti. It was stellar. I came back home, and I bought the same wine, it just doesn&#8217;t taste the same.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question for a technician is, maybe those wines don&#8217;t travel well? Do they keep the good stuff in Italy? \u00a0 Stuff that is not great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer is, you&#8217;re not in Tuscany anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are back in Toledo, Ohio now. You went to work this morning.\u00a0 The Tuscan sun is no longer decorating your afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We try to take care of every single detail that goes into making a bottle of wine, including the storytelling, so we can give you an experience that goes beyond just opening a bottle of wine and enjoying it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I think that&#8217;s the genesis of being obsessed with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2025, what are the best ways for a vineyard and a winery to support community and support social environments?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early on, I understood that the influence that a winery has goes beyond just the pure production of wine as food or in our case, it&#8217;s a luxury item.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s an enhancer of experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I understood that quickly because I grew up in wine country and I grew up in a family that was involved with wine and I quickly understood that there were a lot of opportunities for people in an agricultural setting that were given to us because of the wine industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I grew up in a place that wasn&#8217;t good at growing grapes and I was in an agricultural setting growing potatoes or carrots or corn I would not have had the opportunities that wine has given me. I find myself three decades later living in Napa working for an Italian based family owned company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find myself having lived in five different countries, in four different continents that exposure to the world is a possibility given to an agricultural area just by the wine industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I love that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not only encouraging, but also makes me think about the intrinsic qualities of having wine around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s good about having the wine industry around you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winemakers shape the landscape in the place where we are. We are great stewards of the land because our business model depends on the health of the environment where we grow our grapes. So by definition, we take care of the place where we are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We shape the environment, we build these beautiful wineries, we bring people to visit us because people get really into wine and they want to go and see the winery and where you make your wines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I see all of that as just great additions to a community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s not lost on me that a lot of these great opportunities are given to a community just simply because grapes grow beautifully there and people that are passionate about wine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is most of your travel work-related?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a combination of work, fun and wine. I think the genesis of bouncing around wine regions around the world was just simply trying to understand how people, the tools that people use to express what&#8217;s unique about their terroir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then take that back to your unique terroir and utilize those tools in order for you to express what&#8217;s unique about yours. Experience at different techniques and different cultures was a big part of what I feel the foundational wine making training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So early on in my career, I moved around just trying to capture that [wine training].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those travels took me to Australia for two vintages. France and Spain. I grew up in Argentina, Northwest United States, where I found just an amazing terroir.\u00a0 A group of very talented people making beautiful wines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The person who became my wife and [the place that] became home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The genesis of all that travel was to try to understand how people are. Articulating the nuances that make their wines unique.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was in the Northwest for the longest time. Then I moved to California.\u00a0 Then last year I was lucky enough for the Antinori family to invite me to be part of their US operation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I use that toolbox to better express what&#8217;s unique about Napa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to better articulate what makes Red Mountain a unique place in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s the most special wine region for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love when a wine region expresses its uniqueness through the wines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bordeaux, Burgundy, Napa, the Barossa Valley in South Australia. High altitude vineyards in Mendoza, like the Uco Valley.\u00a0 Priorat in Spain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re lucky enough, a winemaker gets 40 vintages in your lifetime. Every vintage is like a new opportunity to improve upon your craft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s like if you&#8217;re a chef trying to perfect a dish and you have only 40 tries. A lot of what we do is based on what people did before us. We try to just do little nuances different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The one place that was surprising to me was Tuscany. The depth and elegance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now working for an Italian family that has a few estates of consequence in Tuscany. It&#8217;s been easier for me to get into the details and the place is just, it&#8217;s just magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s the perfect combination of everything that makes a wine that much better. It&#8217;s the weather, it&#8217;s the people, it&#8217;s how they feel about wine, it&#8217;s the food and how the wine elevates the food and vice versa. It&#8217;s like the whole package at Tuscany. It&#8217;s dreamy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your education includes agricultural engineering, enology, viticulture. Can you share a lesson that you wish more vineyards would participate on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer to that question would have been very different just 10 or 15 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My formative years I was learning about agriculture, it was all about care of the plant.\u00a0 Nutrients, water, having a healthy crop at all times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last two decades, I have learned that if you take care of the soil, then the soil will take care of the vine.\u00a0 Because we&#8217;re growing grapes. The environment around the vine will be a healthier environment for the vine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The soil will take care of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an agricultural engineer you look into the inputs to go into creating a beautiful, healthy, bountiful crop. I worry less about what the vine needs and I worry more about creating a wonderful environment for that plant. That starts with the soil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That includes soil health and animal welfare. We want animals around the vineyard. Not only sheep grazing in the winter to help us with the cover crop control, but also native species to thrive because when the environment thrives, the vines thrive and hence the grapes have a richer textural experience for wine drinkers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Napa winery Stag\u2019s Leap Wine Cellars, which is iconic and historic, was just certified regenerative organic, which is the baseline of organic farming with an addition of animal welfare social responsibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wineries want to do this, right?\u00a0 Is the biggest challenge budget based?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it&#8217;s two pronged. There is a financial impact to be a lot more responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there&#8217;s also a philosophical approach to what you do. I feel strongly about those of us who spend time in the vineyard going home at the end of it. day and hugging our friends and our kids without having to worry about carrying anything on our clothes that was just sprayed in the vineyard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think there is a very analytical view of farming that might justify, you don&#8217;t have to worry about the stuff that we spray on the vineyard. It&#8217;s all either safe or we take the precautions needed in order for that to be safe for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there is the financial component of going the extra mile to make sure that generations to come, we get to make wine in the same pristine conditions that we do today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s rooted in the philosophy behind our winemaking for the Antinori family. We&#8217;ve been making wines for 600 plus years. So we do want to make sure that those conditions remain pristine. I think there&#8217;s value in that, and so we invest and we go the extra mile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;ve had the privilege of tasting some of the best wines in the world. Can you walk me through one of your favorite memories?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great wine is memorable. It\u2019s unrelated to where it was made, to the price, or its vintage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk with people and they will tell you about this very fancy wine, fancy vintage of this very fancy estate from Napa or Bordeaux.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because every single one of these components informs your experience, making it fabulous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me the greatest wines are the ones that I remember. They spark curiosity.\u00a0 They make me think what did this winemaker do? What did this viticulturist do? What did this grape grower do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to try to understand how those techniques affect their wine and why was the wine sparking joy and curiosity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a very early memory of having a wine from The Catena family in Argentina.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first time that I tried a Chardonnay that was barrel fermented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between a Chardonnay that was barrel fermented and just a regular white table wine, which is what I was exposed to in my early years, was transformative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I couldn&#8217;t believe that. I couldn&#8217;t understand the textural experience .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did this guy get these savory notes in here? How did he get these vanilla tones in this chardonnay without being oaky?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have any current favorite wines that you&#8217;re exploring?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few have sparked a lot of curiosity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One is the 2021 Tignanello from Tignanello Estate in Tuscany, one of the flagship wines for the family. The place is a magic combination of factors that just doesn&#8217;t happen 300 feet down the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s been in the top 10 with Wine Spectator three years in a row.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so it speaks to the place, and then it speaks to how we are capturing that uniqueness through the winemaking process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other is at Stags Leap Wine Cellars, we make three wines from our estate vineyards. The estates behind the winery are SLV and Fay. Fay, named after Nathan Fay who planted the first Cabernet in the Stags Leap district in 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stags Leap 2019 SLV is ultimately a representation of all that hard work showed that uniqueness through your winemaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have a personal favorite wine and food pairing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I grew up in Argentina. Anything that you grill will make me happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anything that comes out of the grill with a little bit of char and a tiny bit of a smoky flavor goes amazingly well with Cabernet Sauvignon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m liking where Cabernet Franc is going these days. I am coming around to the herbal tones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s the best way for the audience to learn more about you and your winery work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juan Munoz-Oca:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow our wineries or go to the website and check out our wineries,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/AntinoriNapaValley.com\">AntinoriNapaValley.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Stag&#8217;s Sleep Wine Cellars, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/SLWC.com\">SLWC.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/colsolare.com\/\">ColSolare.com<\/a>, our winery in Washington.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;ll learn tons about our commitment to sustainability, our work out in the vineyard, the work that our winemakers do in order to craft these beautiful wines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to learn a little bit more about myself personally, I think if you just find me on LinkedIn, you&#8217;ll get not only a perspective of what I&#8217;ve been and my professional profile, but also there&#8217;s some blog posts and some videos that articulate a little bit how I feel about winemaking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Munoz-Oca Reveals the Secret to his Favorite Wine Juan Mu\u00f1oz-Oca is Chief Operation Officer of Vinattieri 1385, the company owned by Marchesi Antinori. 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