Ep 239: Field Blends with Bill Nachbur of ACORN Winery

Wine for Normal People

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Blends are growing in popularity and this week we have the master of blends that are made in the vineyard: Bill Nachbur of ACORN Winery in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma, CA. If you are curious about old-school viticulture, this is a must-listen.

Here are some of the topics we address:

Bill tells us about field blends and the difference between a field blend and a blended wine
We discuss the costs and benefits of field blends?
We talk about why ACORN does field blends, even though monoculture is the modern way and how he has sustained the practice through the years
ACORN farms sustainably. We talk about the environmental/vineyard benefits of field blends
We chat about the effect of field blends on flavor of finished wine and how it affects winemaking decisions?
I ask Bill if it's possible to NOT be a farmer (just a winemaker) and still make a successful field blend...
And we tackle some exciting news: ACORN will soon have a white wine!! We talk about the genesis of field of blended grapes and how challenging it can be!

Visit: https://acornwinery.com/vineyard-map for the stuff we address on the podcast and to order Bill's outstanding wines!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	I am so happy to welcome back on the show Bill Nackbar from Acorn Winery.
0:27.6	It is no secret that Acorn is one of my absolute all-time favorite Sonoma wineries.
0:34.4	They were part of the underground wine event.
0:36.5	We, I send you guys to them all the time.
0:39.0	I think that they are fantastic.
0:42.0	And Bill is one of the most insightful brilliant people in wine, modest, but also just so smart.
0:51.6	One of the things that I love about Bill that I think fits in so
0:55.3	well with so many of the other people that come on the podcast and that I
0:58.2	interact with regularly is that he had another life before wine and I think that gives you a totally different
1:04.8	perspective. Thanks for coming back on the show bill. Well thanks a lot Elizabeth.
1:08.3	I'm glad to be back. I am so glad to have you back and I know that that the
1:12.1	listeners are happy to have you back and I know that the listeners are happy to have you back.
1:14.0	For people who haven't heard of Acorn before, why don't you tell us a little bit about the winery and how you got into all this?
1:19.0	I found the Vineyard in 1989 while I was taking viticulture classes at Santa Rosa Junior College.
1:26.2	I was out pruning the vines before I own it, but I named the Vineyard Allegria, which means
1:32.3	happiness in Spanish, because it makes me so much happier to be out in the
1:36.3	Vineyard than I was behind a desk as a lawyer.
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