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Gerret Copeland,
Proprietor and Chairman, Bouchaine Vineyards

“I fell in love with Burgundy on my first trip there with my father, when I was sixteen,” Gerret Copeland recalls. The world of wine caught my imagination and never left it. Bouchaine is the realization of my boyhood dream.”
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Tatiana Copeland,
Proprietor and President, Bouchaine Vineyards

“My first visit to Bouchaine, in 1981, was for a ‘testing' rather than a ‘tasting', recollects Tatiana Copeland. I was on a business trip in Los Angeles, and my husband called to tell me that a winery in Napa Valley was for sale. I flew up that afternoon, put on my CPA hat, asked a myriad of questions and looked around. There were two very dilapidated buildings, with bare earth and no vines. However, the beauty of Carneros captured my imagination. Now, almost 30 years later, the property has truly blossomed into an elegant country winery, and I am ever more delighted.”
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Michael Richmond,
General Manager & Winemaker, Bouchaine Vineyards

“I had never given much thought to fate, but as I look out my kitchen window toward Bouchaine amidst its vines, I realize that coming to Bouchaine Vineyards is the culmination of my life in wine. Everything that I've learned over the last 30-some years comes to bear. Being at Bouchaine has also rekindled the student in me. Though wine is steeped in tradition, it is vital to stay current with trends and new technologies in this most dynamic of industries. I don't accept innovations automatically, but it's incumbent on me to try them on for size. Winemaking is a very soft science,” mused Bouchaine Winemaker Michael Richmond.
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Greg Gauthier,
Vice President, Wine Production & Sales, Bouchaine Vineyards

“Almost any wine that is of interest, that is satisfying, has multiple elements. I love to use a ‘music metaphor' when tasting with guests at Bouchaine. Wine flavors combine like notes, forming chords and developing harmonious tones or themes. We lay the flavors over each other; they flow through each other… until the composition completes itself with layers of sensory satisfaction. There's also an emotional component, and most people who visit Bouchaine feel they can taste the connection between the land, the grapes, and us, the people who nurture them,” notes Greg Gauthier, Vice President of Wine Production and Sales at Bouchaine Vineyards.
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