jasoh! is happy to have Kent Rosenblum and some of the wines he's helped make pair up with 5 fantastic courses by our Chef Nathan!
Anyone who likes wine has tasted, or at least heard of Rosenblum Cellars. Founder Kent Rosenblum is a pioneer and icon in the wine industry who built one of the most successful wineries and brands over the last two decades.
So what has Kent been up to since he sold his winery in 2008? Well he is helping his daughter, Shauna, build a new brand called Rock Wall.
Listening to Shauna talk about the wines, the vineyards and the process, one gets the impression she has been doing this for decades.
Well, I guess she has, hanging around the Rosenblum winery and following her dad through the vineyards since she was a little girl.
Shauna is now a formidable winemaker in her own right. But dad is there to watch, taste and give his expert advice every step of the way as Rock Wall’s consulting winemaker. So it’s not a huge surprise that the wines turned out to be everything one would expect; delicious, nicely balanced and reasonably priced.
The wines from Rock Wall may be reminiscent of the Rosenblum wines of the past, but they are certainly worth seeking out and enjoying. Shauna Rosenblum learned her craft from one of the masters, but she definitely adds another dimension to the wines.
More about our special guest:
Kent Rosenblum, a veterinarian by training, gets a lot of credit for the whole urban winery concept. Today, there is an association of 21 urban wineries, the East Bay Vintner’s Alliance, that traces its lineage directly through Rosenblum. Several of the urban winemakers worked with and for Rosenblum. Another family member, Kent’s daughter Shauna, is an urban winemaker herself. With some help from her famous father, she headsRockwall Wines, which opened in 2008 in an old airplane painting hangar at the Alameda Navy base.
The elder Rosenblum started making wine with friends in Berkeley in the 1970s. In the next decade, he moved the operation to Alameda, where the list of wines grew by leaps and bounds with special emphasis on zinfandel and Rhone-style red wines.
The plan was to bring in good grapes from selected growers in different areas to Alameda where the transformation into wine was completed. The result was a truckload of gold medals and high ratings from the critics over the decades
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