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Lamborn Family Vineyards

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About us

Heidi Peterson Barrett is a winemaker who has been responsible for some of California's most notable cult wines, including Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle Vineyards, Paradigm Winery, Grace Family Vineyards, Amuse Bouche, Lamborn Family Vineyards, Showket Vineyards and Fantesca, is a consultant for Diamond Creek Vineyards and Niebaum-Coppola, and has her own wine label, La Sirena.

Personal life

She is the daughter of California wine pioneer Richard Peterson, and is married to Bo Barrett, winemaker at Chateau Montelena of "Judgment of Paris" (Note: Mike Grgich was the actual winemaker of the 1974 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay that won the famed Paris tasting), which was recently the subject of the motion picture Bottle Shock.Robert Parker has on several occasions awarded her wines 100 points and called her "the first lady of wine".

She graduated from UC Davis in 1980 with a B.Sc. in Fermentation Science. Having experienced internships in both the German and Australian wine industries, Barrett became head winemaker for Buehler Vineyards in 1983 at age 25. Following the 1992 vintage of Screaming Eagle, Barrett became a "winemaking star".

See also

  • List of wine personalities

References

Footnotes

External links

  • La Sirena official site


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How to get there

latitude: -88.4379663
longitute: 43.0621345
Summit Lake Drive

Summit Lake Drive

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