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| Winemaking: first 200 years are the hardest (Financial Times) |
| Take a hard-nosed investment banker out of the toughest business environment there is and transplant him to the gentler, quirkier world of winemaking, and what do you get? Some great wine but not, as yet, a clear idea of how to make a consistent profit. |
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| New tasting room born from deep vintner roots (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) |
| T here’s another new tasting room in downtown Paso Robles. But this is anything but a new venture by a winemaker new to the area. The tasting room at 1317 Park St. is the next chapter in the long and legendary career of Chuck Ortman, who founded Meridian Vineyards in 1979 and is one of the early visionaries of the Central Coast winemaking region. Now age 69, Ortman has opened the tasting ... |
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