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...
