We reached out to Randall Grahm the other day because we thought of him when we had a charming Bonny Doon Vin Gris de Cigare at a seafood restaurant in East Williamsburg. Though Grahm in 2020 sold his Bonny Doon Vineyard, which helped put Rhône varietals, fine wines with screwcaps and labels listing ingredients in Americans’ wine glasses, we had not tried his latest creations, wines from his experimental Popelouchum Estate in San Juan Bautista, Calif.
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December 15, 2023
"I'm just tired of making wines that are not needed and I think wines of place make the world more interesting." Randall Grahm
Sam Radford on "international style" and expanding the debate surrounding "bad' wine.
Hands down, soil is the essential element when planting vines and growing grapes.
August 24, 2015At his 400-acre Popuelouchum estate, boasted Grahm, "everything we grow tastes sensational--the tomatoes, asparagus, peas--whatever! At the end it's the place that's going to make the difference, not the grape."
July 21, 2015Randall Grahm is launching a crowdfunding initiative on Indiegogo to raise money for the establishment an experimental vineyard, Popelouchum, in San Juan Bautista.
August 27, 2014Lenn Thompson, Execitive Editor at New York Cork Report, talks drinking local, the Finger Lakes and (gasp!) beer.
A few days shy of his 61st birthday, Randall Grahm intimates that at last, it’s time to become an adult.
April 22, 2014Dorothy J. Gaiter interviews Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard
