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Live in the Vineyard Goes CountryMay 2022 O.N.E. The Duo “Guilty” WATCH VIDEO |
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Live in the Vineyard Goes CountryMay 2022 Ian Flanigan “Under A Southern Sky” WATCH VIDEO |
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Live in the Vineyard Goes CountryMay 2022 Carolyn Jones “So Many Skies” WATCH VIDEO |
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Live in the Vineyard Goes CountryMay 2022 Brooke Moriber “This Town Made Us” WATCH VIDEO |
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A Place in Napa Where They Make Wine the Old-Fashioned WayJune 22, 2020 Wine Travel Stories2 READ MORE |
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Charter Oak WineryMarch 2020The Napa Wine Project READ MORE |
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A Family Affair
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Napa Valley Wineries with the Best Zinfandel
February 27, 2016 |
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The Food Network Visits Charter Oak Winery
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Friends Enjoy Their Visit to Charter Oak Winery
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Episode 17, Robert Fanucci,
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2014 Petite Sirah Receives 94 Points
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2014 Monte Rosso Receives 93 Points
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My Napa Valley Diary
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Charter Oak: Blending Art & Wine
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The 6 Coolest Bottles of California Wine (that taste great, too)Co-owner and artist Layla Fanucci etches and hand-paints each design before it’s sealed and waxed onto Charter Oak’s bottles. Just like the bold, Picasso-esque art, the fruit for this ripe and jammy old-vine Zin is handpicked and bottled in small batches. April 2016www.purewow.com READ MORE |
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Napa Valley Wineries with the Best ZinfandelCharter Oak Winery and Vineyards- This family winery keeps things real, they pride themselves on being the “most original, old-world” winery around, plus they bottle some of the Napa Valley’s most elegant Zinfandel. Visiting Charter Oak Winery and Vineyards is a blast… February 2016www.intowine.com READ MORE |
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Winemaker Robert Fanucci Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATT_xLOPdSU&feature=youtu.be |
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The Cooking Channel Visits Charter Oak WineryFran and Sal are in the Bay Area to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Berkeley location of Artichoke Basille's Pizza. To reward the staff for all of the hard work, they are surprising them with an anniversary party on the beautiful Charter Oak Winery Vineyard in St. Helena. While in San Francisco, the guys check out a Goat Hill Pizza, a favorite in town for 40 years, to try a couple of their time-honored pies. The guys finally make it to Charter Oak Winery in the Napa Valley and meet their hosts Robert and Layla Fanucci. The couple give Fran and Sal a tour of the vineyard and wine making process, and then cook up a delicious meal in anticipation of the Artichoke staff's arrival. In the end, everyone arrives, the guys make a toast to Artichoke Berkeley, and food and Charter Oak wines flow as the sun sets in the Charter Oak Vineyard. VIEW NOW |
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Robert Fanucci/WinemakerWinemaker, Founder of Charter Oak Winery &VineyardsRobert Fanucci, founder of Charter Oak Vineyards, is devoted to crafting the world-class wine that his family has been producing for four generations. During the harvest of 1986, Robert left his career in securities in New York to pursue the art of winemaking that his grandfather, Guido Ragghianti, an immigrant from Lucca, Italy, developed in the 1920s. His grandfather, who passed away the same year, imparted to Robert his old-world tools, including a 100-year-old basket press, hand-grape crusher, timeworn wooden barrels, and homemade punch-down tools, which Robert still uses to craft Charter Oak wines today. In 1990, Robert and his family made St. Helena their permanent home. Some of Robert’s earliest memories are of helping his grandfather make wine on the vineyard surrounding his home on Charter Oak Avenue in St. Helena, and crushing grapes ripened by the California sun in the palms of his hands. Today, he carries on his family’s winemaking tradition with his wife Layla and their three children, Michelle, Nicole and David. The Fanuccis’ hand is present in every step of the time-consuming process used to craft their artisanal, award-winning wine, from crushing the grapes to designing the bottle labels. Robert Fanucci was born in San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from San Francisco State University in 1978 and graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1982. In 1989, Robert was awarded a Graduate Law Degree in Taxation (LL.M.) from New York University. When he is not making wine, Robert practices transactional law as a partner of Gagen, McCoy, McMahon, Markowitz, Koss and Raines, with locations in Danville and St. Helena, Calif. |
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Rediscovering the Soul of Napa ValleyWhile planning a recent trip to Napa Valley I put some feelers out looking for small, undiscovered gems in Napa Valley. I was looking for a different Napa experience. My friend Brandy told me about a place I had never heard of before, called Charter Oak Winery in St. Helena... October 2014Chicagoist.com READ MORE |
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What's on your 'Zinfandel Mind'?The lively, colorful and albeit, haunting and mysterious artwork on the label of Charter Oak Wine 2012 “The Zinfandel Mind #13” foretells of the seductive wine inside. April 23, 2014Examiner.com READ MORE |
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Charter Oak Winery in St. Helena CaliforniaSee California destinations, local events, travel tips and advice, maps, dining suggestions and other related topics. March 2014 READ MORE |
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Charter Oak Winery Releases two new winesWe think some of the best wine in the world comes right from our own country in Napa Valley... February 21, 2014 READ MORE |
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Wine Country WeekendThe best way to celebrate “spring break,” adult-style? A trip to Napa Valley, California. Here are must-sees for your weekend itinerary. February 15, 2014 |
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Charter Oak 2010 Monto Rosso on Drink Hacker
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Creativity Abounds:At Charter Oak Winery, it's a marriage of art and wine.March 2013 READ MORE |
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2010 Charter Oak Guido Raggihianti Old World Field Blend EARNS TOP RATING of 94+ AT ZAP 2013
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Charter Oak chosen one of seven ‘Best Wines’ at ZAP 2012 Plus 2009 Monte Rosso Rated 93 PointsZinfandel Styles: Sublime to Riduculous READ MORE |
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Charter Oak Featured on the Today ShowMarch 2011 |
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A Very Good Year - SF State University MagazineWith their wine winning accolades and her artwork the subject of a new book, these Gators have reason to raise a glass. June 2012 |
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Radio Talkshow with Allan Wolper on WBGOJune 2012 Allan Wolper talks to international artist, Layla Fanucci, and her husband Robert Fanucci, who makes award winning Charter Oak wines in Napa Valley. |
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Charter Oak Winery on KRON Channel 4December 2011 |
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Heard it Through the GrapevineDecember 2011 |
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Charter Oak Wines: Quiet Pursuit of Excellence
April 17, 2012 |
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For a 22-year-old, David Fanucci spends a lot of his life in the distant past.How else can one explain Fanucci’s appreciation for the 100-year-old basket press that his great-grandfather brought over from Italy, his devotion to the labor-intensive winemaking techniques from yesteryear? Fanucci’s respect for his ancestors is palpable; he incorporates it into everything he does at his family’s Charter Oak Winery in St. Helena. In June, the throwback style won him a prestigious honor: The title of “Top Young Winemaker” during the NextGen Wine Competition for Millennial Wine Buyers in Santa Rosa. |
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In particular, Fanucci was recognized for his Sonoma Valley Monte Rosso Vineyard 2007 Zinfandel. The wine took “Best of Show” at the competition and BEAT nearly 750 other wines.“Good wine is all about great fruit,” Fanucci said, noting that the wine is made with grapes from one of the oldest vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties combined. “But I’d like to think the way we go about all of this certainly makes a difference, too.” Winemaking certainly is in Fanucci’s blood. His great-grandfather, Guido Ragghianti, was the family’s first oenophile, and brought a basket press and wooden grape vats from Lucca, Italy, when he immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s. He set up shop at a home on Charter Oak Avenue in St. Helena. It wasn’t until 1986 that Fanucci’s father, Robert Fanucci, started Charter Oak. Since then, the elder Fanucci passed along winemaking knowledge to David, who remembers toiling over his first chores in the cellar when he was 5 or 6 years old. READ MORE |
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Fanucci named 'Top Young Winemaker'July 30, 2010 |