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BILL PHELPS - JOSEPH PHELPS VINEYARDS<br />
MARC PERRIN - CHATEAU DE BEAUCASTEL<br />
Bill Phelps<br />
PRESIDENT - JOSEPH PHELPS VINEYARDS<br />
Marc Perrin<br />
GENERAL MANAGER - CHATEAU DE BEAUCASTEL<br />
Bill Phelps represents the second generation of Phelps family members in the<br />
wine business today. He is President of Joseph Phelps Vineyards, developing and<br />
implementing long-term strategic plans for the winery and vineyard operations<br />
in both Napa Valley and western Sonoma County. Bill played an instrumental<br />
role in moving Joseph Phelps Vineyards to an entirely estate grown wine<br />
producer and actively represents both wineries at a number of high profile wine<br />
festivals and fundraising events each year.<br />
Bill moved to the Napa Valley in 1998, after practicing law for twenty years,<br />
primarily in the investment banking industry. Born in 1954, he is a graduate of<br />
Colorado College and the University of California’s Hastings College of Law.<br />
Bill also works with his father, Joe Phelps, in a variety of business interests, and<br />
serves on the boards of the Land Trust of Napa County and the Community<br />
Foundation of the Napa Valley. Bill lives in St. Helena with his wife Andrea. They<br />
have two children, Allie and Will.<br />
For more than a century Familie Perrin has trailblazed the wine industry<br />
to become the largest owner of vineyards in the best terroirs of the France’s<br />
Southern Rhône Valley.<br />
Marc Perrin, the son of Jean-Pierre Perrin, was born April 25, 1970. He has<br />
been involved in the assemblage and winemaking at Beaucastel since 1988, and<br />
joined the family company full time in 2002. Marc, along with eight brothers<br />
and cousins — are the fifth generation to lead Familie Perrin. Marc is now the<br />
general manager, and travels around the world marketing the wines of the Perrin<br />
family. His grandfather Jacques Perrin, was a gifted winemaker who brought<br />
world renown to the family domaine by being one of the first winemakers to<br />
try various innovative techniques in his cellar and early organic practices in his<br />
vineyards. Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, Perrin is following his own<br />
intuition and creating trends rather than following them.<br />
Forty-four-year-old Perrin, whose memories of riding a tractor through the<br />
vineyards date back as far as he can recall, considers everyone in his family a<br />
proud wine craftsman.<br />
18 DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION 2015 AUCTION CATALOG 19
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