New Boeger Winemaker is One of 2019's Rising Stars
Esther Mobley, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, just released her list of the 2019 Winemakers to Watch: The Rising Stars of West Coast Wine. She talked about how competitive this year’s list in with the west coast having an “embarrassment of riches.”
One of the winemakers Mobley profiled was Byron Elmendorf of Boeger Winery.
From a distance, it would be easy to see Byron Elmendorf as an anomaly in the Sierra foothills. … Elmendorf, who is the head winemaker at Boeger Winery in Placerville, sees himself as part of a larger generational shift. Many of the foothills’ pioneering winemakers are reaching the ends of their careers, “and now they’re making room for new people to come in and start a new era,” he says.
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Elmendorf brings a worldly perspective to his winemaking. The son of foreign aid workers, he was born in Honduras and raised in Ecuador and India, then studied plant biology at Brown University in Rhode Island. After spending a few years as a climate-change consultant in Washington, D.C., he entered the life of a traveling harvest intern, working in New Zealand, Canada, France’s Rhone Valley and California. He joined Boeger full time in 2015.
For more on Byron Elmendorf and the other winemakers featured, check out the article here.