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NETJETS US VOLUME 12 2020

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TASTING NOTES<br />

Rooted in its Californian terroir, BRAND is a<br />

winery merging viticultural customs with tech<br />

world disruptions. // By Cathy Huyghe<br />

BREAKING<br />

THE NAPA<br />

MOLD<br />

ADAM POTTS<br />

IT’S BECOME A TROPE—or maybe a cliché—for the Silicon Valley tech<br />

entrepreneur to turn into a Napa Valley winemaker. They are usually<br />

quick to discover that grapes are not as easy to tweak as a few lines of<br />

code, and so the vineyard turns into something like a vanity project.<br />

Even though it did originate south of San Francisco and<br />

migrate north, BRAND Napa Valley is something altogether<br />

different. Co-owners Jim Bean and Christine O’Sullivan met<br />

while working at Apple, but instead of making just another<br />

wine, they are creating a new template for how the Silicon<br />

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