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The combination of actor Christophe Lambert and devoted expert sommelier Eric Beaumard equals an interesting wine at a great price. Les Garrigues de Beaumard-Lambert is truly a remarkable wine pairing.

It was in 1988 that Judy Jordan began J Wine Company in northern Sonoma County, California with her father, the founder of the Alexander Valley's Jordan Winery. But it is really in recent years that J has come into its own, as the winery took over the former Piper Sonoma sparkling wine facilities in the Russian River Valley and Judy gradually bought her father out, taking over as J's sole proprietor.

Tim Hanni is on a crusade to abolish traditional notions of food and wine pairing. He would like to see us drinking the wines we want, not necessarily the wines we are told to drink, and his campaign, WineQuest, is causing quite a buzz in the global wine community.

We caught up with Francis Ford Coppola at the end of his eight-cities-in-five-days hop around the US to promote his Niebaum-Coppola brand.

Winemaker John Munch has watched his industry blossom from an agricultural sideline to what is billed as California's next shining star.

We managed to catch up with the prolific vintner between harvest and blending to find out the truth about the Central Coast's "Grape Expectations."

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