ON A CRISP, CLEAR SUNDAY AFTERNOON, winemaker Leon Santoro proudly points out his gold-medal-winning Viognier vines growing on a lovely hillside at Orfila Vineyards
A little known local winery has again beat the odds by producing a wine that topped Napa stalwarts Rutherford Ranch and Grgich Hills, as well as hundreds of others, in the recently completed Monterey Wine Competition.
I have known Leon Santoro, the winemaker, for the better part of 20 years. I met him shortly after he arrived at what was then called Thomas Jaeger Vineyards, a small winery north of San Diego near the Wild Animal Park...
I've just completed my 15th year as director of the Monterey Wine Competition in what has become my annual rite of spring. ...
Barbara Metz
Metz Public Relations
metzpr@san.rr.com
Phone: (858) 677-0720
