Jean-Charles Boisset and Gina Gallo-Boisset, the scions of two well-known wine households, have purchased Flora Springs Winery in Napa Valley from the Komes and Garvey households, founders of the company. Though Gallo-Boisset and Boisset are commerce veterans, that’s the major winery collaboration by the couple. The sale accommodates the St. Helena winery, inventory and the flamboyantly designed tasting room on Hwy. 29. Neither event is disclosing the financial particulars of the sale.
“Flora Springs embodies the family spirit we like and are devoted to proceed,” Gina talked about in a press launch.
Jean-Charles added, “We intend to boost their distinctive wines to a model new dimension.”
4 A very long time of Cabernet
Flora Springs was primarily based in 1978 by the Komes and Garvey households, who restored a dilapidated stone winery and ramshackle Victorian residence as quickly as owned by Louis M. Martini. The winery is best acknowledged for Cabernet Sauvignon and blends akin to Trilogy and Soliloquy.
In 2020, the households supplied their winery facility and their 280-acre property, along with 58 acres of vines, to Daniel and Florence Cathiard, the home house owners of Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte in Bordeaux. They retained the tasting room and mannequin title, downsizing manufacturing by higher than half to eight,500 circumstances yearly and shifting their main focus to direct-to-consumer product sales.
Third-generation member of the household Nat Komes is now stepping down as widespread supervisor to take care of Jon Nathaniel Cellars, the Komes family’s boutique winery in Rutherford. “I’m very excited to information this new chapter of my family’s Napa Valley winemaking legacy,” talked about Komes, in a press launch.
A New Collaboration
Enrico Bertoz will proceed as winemaker, working with Gallo-Boisset, a veteran winemaker at her family’s agency, E&J Gallo. The Komes family retained 30 acres of property vineyards for his or her very personal use. “We have secured contracts with the Komes family and loads of of their key growers to proceed the property imaginative and prescient, whereas together with our private palate of excellent vineyards to provide that Gina and I every ship to the desk,” Boisset suggested Wine Spectator.
Boisset is president of Boisset Assortment, which owns wineries in France and California, along with DeLoach, Buena Vista and Bouchard Aîné & Fils. The company moreover owns Oakville Grocery and the historic Calistoga Depot. Collectively, Boisset and Gallo-Boisset private the Ink Dwelling Inn in St. Helena.
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