EPONYMOUS WINES
Updated 108 days ago
- Age: 25 years
- ID: 13118361/146
Eponymous Wines PO Box 438 Oakville CA 94562
Winemaker and founder, Bob Pepi, built his reputation making Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Sangiovese for his family's Napa Valley winery throughout the 1980s and early '90s. Since 1995, Bob has worked as a consultant with vineyards in Argentina, Chile, Colorado, Texas, and most of the best grape growing areas in California. This has not only given him a broader background as a grape grower and winemaker, but has expanded opportunities to find some great vineyards from which he makes small quantities of his own wine for Eponymous... I named my wine Eponymous in a playful vein. Eponymous means ‘one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named.' My fanciful definition is ‘a play on words by one who is unable to use his family name on his own bottle of wine'... In 1966, the Pepi family bought a ranch with vineyards in the Napa Valley, thinking it would be a retreat from the city. In 1980, Bob and his retired father decided to start a winery on the property,..
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