Ep 404: Truchard Vineyards, A Carneros (Napa) Legend with Anthony Truchard

<p style="text-align: center;"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/anthony-ii.jpeg" alt= "" width="200" height="299" /><em><span style= "font-size: 8pt;"><a href="https://truchardvineyards.com/people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Truchard, Truchard Vineyards</a></span></em></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /> Anthony Truchard of <a href="https://truchardvineyards.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truchard Vineyards</a> in the Los Carneros area of southern Napa is one of my favorite people in Napa, and it was a pleasure to have him on the show.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><a href="https://truchardvineyards.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Truchard Vineyards</a> is a family-owned winery that has been operating for over 40 years. It started when Anthony’s parents Tony and JoAnn were about to head to Korea for a two-year tour with the US Army (of which Tony was part). After Tony completed his medical residency in Texas, where the couple was from JoAnn, who was very pregnant, fortuitously slipped on a grape in a grocery store, broke her knee and the Army sent the family to a base in CA near the Nevada border. </p> <p> </p> <p>Upon exploring the beauty of California, Tony got a wild hair to buy a vineyard in Napa and the rest is history. Truchard started out as a growing operation in the 1970s but in 1989 they decided to take some of their favorite blocks and start their own winery. Although they are still a major supplier of grapes to very prestigious properties up-valley in Napa, their winery is true to the land of Carneros and one of the purest expressions of this unique area in the North Coast of California.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/jo-ann-tony.jpeg" alt= "" width="200" height="300" /><a href= "https://truchardvineyards.com/people/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><spa