Peninsula People Dec 2017

The Jolleys designed their wine label to evoke the 1950s.
Photos by Brad Jacobson
have to do it now. He said, ‘You have been so persistent and tenacious, I’ll
sell it to you.’ He didn’t have an email address, so we did everything by
snail mail. I would write a document, and he’d want to change one word
and he’d mail it back to me, so what could have taken a couple of days
took six months.”
The precious trademark having been acquired, Kristin and Stephen now
had to figure out what to do with it. Kristin had taken wine classes and
had a good idea of what she wanted. A friend knew a fourth generation
winemaker in the Spanish province of La Mancha. A trip was taken, an
agreement was reached, and they started collaborating to create a red and
a white wine.
“We knew what we wanted the white to taste like, and we worked with
them to make this Chardonnay that was light, crisp, and refreshing. We
didn’t want it heavily oaked because we wanted that citrus-forward aspect,
so it spends a little time in French oak so you get this kiss of vanilla. Our
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