I recently ran a giveaway on my Instagram account to giveaway two bottles of Cattleya Wines, plus the chance to taste the wines on Zoom with proprietor and winemaker Bibiana González Rave. I am a big fan of Cattleya Wines and I jumped at the chance to collaborate with Bibiana and one of her brands.
Bibiana was born in Colombia and had little exposure to wine growing up, as wine was not a part of everyday culture. Her father drank wine and at 14 years old she proclaimed that she wanted to be a winemaker. Bibiana studied viticulture and enology in France and being an outsider who spoke no French, she still ended up working with some of the best wineries in France, including: Château Haut-Brion, La Mission Haut-Brion and Château la Dominique in Bordeaux, Michel & Stephane Ogier and Domaine Clusel-Roch in Côte-Rôtie, Domaine du Scheidecker in Alsace and Domaine du Devevey in Burgundy. Her first vintage in California was in 2004. Since then, she’s worked at: La Crema, Peay Vineyards, Au Bon Climat and Qupé before Lynmar Estate, where she was winemaker from 2009 through early 2012. She also consulted with Wayfarer and Pahlmeyer.
In 2014 Bibiana started her own brands with Cattleya and Alma de Cattleya. Alma de Cattleya (bottles range from $22-$48) is Sonoma County appellation focused, while Cattleya (bottles range from $55-$85) is more premium and sub-appellation focused with wines from the Russian River Valley, Sonoma Coast, and the Santa
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