In 2013 Jon Bonné published his ground-breaking and, at the time, controversial work, The New California Wine. Bonné’s book brought to light a story previously untold in Californian wine folklore, news of a groundswell of young, dynamic producers swimming against the tide of bombastic and homogeneous wine that prevailed at the time. The subtitle read: a guide to the producers and wines behind a revolution in taste. This was the book Kashy Khaledi, then an executive at Capitol Records, had been waiting for. Restless in his work and “exhausted by exhausting wines”, Bonné’s book and the wines described in its pages, served as his catalyst to take the leap into the wine world, something he had been considering for years.
