Bigger Than Your Head, August 9, 2023 If any two people in the California wine industry could be called a power couple, that epithet could go to Bibiana Gonzalez Rave and her husband Jeff Pisoni. Bibiana — let’s use first names — is owner and winemaker of Cattleya Wines, a producer of chardonnay and Pinot… Read more »
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A Warm Energy: This holiday, a Columbian-born winemaker’s new coffee label shines a spotlight on nuanced flavors
Bibiana González Rave is naturally high energy, nearly shimmering with joy at her many passions: family, Sonoma wines, and her new Shared Notes coffee, imported from her native Colombia. It helps, she says with a laugh, that she adores the coffee of her home country, sipping up to 10 cups a day. “Colombia is one… Read more »
Shared Notes 2021 Vintage Release: Ten Vintages of Sauvignon Blanc
10 years ago, Bibiana and Jeff set out to create something together. This would be a wine label dedicated to exceptional and age-worthy Sauvignon Blanc. The goal from the outset was to gain inspiration from two famed regions in France that produce noteworthy styles of this wine: Bordeaux and the Loire Valley (home to Sancerre… Read more »
2020 Vintage Earns Two Stars from Connoisseurs’ Guide Sauvignon Blanc Reviews
August 2021 Issue We have long held that Sauvignon Blanc does not get the full respect that it deserves, and those produced by wineries such as Grieve Family, Merry Edwards, Lail and Shared Notes… are guaranteed to bring a change of heart to those who question its status as a truly important variety. —Stephen M…. Read more »
2019 Vintage Reviewed in Jeb Dunnuck’s Sonoma Regional Report
Sonoma: Looking at the 2019s In a nutshell, 2019 is another strong vintage that fits nicely alongside the trilogy of 2016, 2017, and 2018 in terms of quality. I think 2018 is the best of these recent vintages, yet 2019 is certainly not far behind, and as I hope these reviews show, the vintage is… Read more »
Celebrating Summer with the Shared Notes 2020 Vintage Release
Summer is the good life: long days of light, slow evenings, time spent outside. In this bright season, we spend mornings and evenings in the open air, talking and eating with friends and family al fresco. purchase wine We invite you to celebrate these days with us, from morning til night. Shared Notes is just… Read more »
Shared Notes Release 2019 Vintage and Something New
purchase wine Jeff Pisoni and Bibiana González Rave may be absorbed in their respective winemaking ventures, but they are still able to collaborate not only in their family life but also in their professional capacities. After all, both Jeff—vintner for the Pisoni family—and Bibiana, who crafts Alma de Cattleya as well as Cattleya wines, possess… Read more »
2018 Vintage Wines are “Bright” in Wine Advocate’s August 2020 Week 2 Issue
USA, California, Sonoma County: More 2018s Here are some more recent releases from Sonoma County… 2018 in Sonoma has been hailed as a spectacular vintage, and for many top wineries it is… The 2018 vintage carried the potential for near-perfect wines… 2018 was an unusually long, cool growing season, and there are many gorgeous wines… Read more »
Shared Notes an “exciting producer” in Jeb Dunnuck’s 2018 Sonoma Regional Report
Sonoma: Another Brilliant Vintage in 2018 While the benchmark estates certainly delivered the goods in 2018, readers should look at the wines from Aperture Cellars, Arista, Blue Farm, Boars’ View, Capture, Cattleya, Chev, CIRQ, Croix, Devil Proof, Ferren, Jeff Cohn, Lasseter Family, Limerick Lane, Lynmar, Mauritson, Ram’s Gate, Shared Notes, Sojourn Cellars, and Wayfarer, just… Read more »
Napa Valley Register Features Shared Notes
A Project of Married Winemakers Many winemakers say that their job is to simply usher the grapes through the process of fermentation and into the bottle. But even a winemaker who focuses on minimal intervention has hundreds of decisions to make along the way. There are decisions to be made in the vineyard, questions of… Read more »