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Bob Oatley, a giant in Australian winemaking, tourism and yachting, has died, aged 87.

 

​He won't be feeling his Wild Oats after today.

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A talented winemaker who also co-founded Patricia Green Cellars in 2000 after seven years as head winemaker at Torii Mor, Green was found dead at her cabin retreat near Roseburg, Oregon on Monday this week (6 November). She was 62.

Her business and winemaking partner, Jim Anderson, told Wine Spectator that the “apparent cause” of her death was a fall but he knew nothing more at that moment.

Winemaker dies of a fall at the house....Any guess as to why she fell?
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Slipped on a grape skin?

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23 minutes ago, Toast said:

Slipped Sipped on a grape skin

ftfy

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Napa Valley’s Arrowhead Vineyard, where a worker who had been attempting to free some wire caught in the tilling tines had the tiller attachment fall on him and crush him to death.

 

Arrowhead reds don’t just go with meat, they ARE meat!

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Oh you'll have to sue me in DL court.  I know this person is a brewer of beer, but this thread seems appropriate.  File the court documents....

Seems like Rob Pfeiffer of Pfeiffer beer fame (apparently part of Blue Earl Brewing Company now, where Rob is head brewer?) has Lyme disease.  But more importantly he fought Stage 4 melanoma in 2002 — cancer that had spread to internal organs. He underwent chemotherapy and came out of it 'cancer-free'.  Yeah it's been a while, but the foundation is laid.  
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46 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

I think I'll have the artificial wine in that case. 

One mocktail coming up.

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James Brandeberry, who served as dean of Wright State University’s College of Engineering for nearly two decades before founding his own winery, died Friday at his home near Enon. He was 78.  Brandeberry joined Wright State’s engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 1969. He helped launch the university's computer science department, became its chairman, left to work in the private sector, returned a year later and was named the founding dean of WSU’s college of engineering in 1986.  

In his non-academic time, Brandeberry’s passion was making wine. He was an avid home winemaker during the last decade of his tenure at WSU, earning scores of medals and awards in home-winemaking competitions.  The recognition of his winemaking skills continued well after he founded his winery. His Brandeberry Winery Blackberry wine won “Best Fruit Wine” designation in the 2013 and 2017 Ohio Wine Competitions, and his “Black Dog” blend was named best fruit wine in the same competition in 2015.
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Charles Richard Daniel, the founder of Daniel Vineyard's, a West Virginia family-owned estate winery, has died.  He was 87.

 

https://www.wvnstv.com/local-news/raleigh-county/founder-of-daniel-vineyard-s-has-died/1480028299

 

 

More about Daniel Vineyard's:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Vineyards

 

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Patrick Léon former winemaker at Mouton Rothschild and consulting oenologist at Château d’Esclans has died aged 75.

A hugely respected winemaker with decades of experience in some of France’s top estates as well as California, Chile and the Languedoc, Patrick also helped push Provençal rosé into the spotlight through his work at Château d’Esclans.

Born in Bordeaux in 1943, Patrick received his oenology diploma in 1964 and in 1972 he went to work for Alexis Lichine as general manager of purchasing and oenologist and winemaker at properties such as Château Lascombes and Château Castéra.  From 1985 to 2004 he was head winemaker at Château Mouton Rothschild as well as its affiliate properties, d’Armhailac and Clerc Milon.

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While doing some checkup on Gerard Basset just now, I'd discovered his wife runs a blog about a cafe she currently runs. It includes the occasional update on Gerard, and this latest one from two days ago doesn't suggest long... :skull:

 

Losing my mum to cancer in early December and having spent every day with Gerard in hospital since 17th December, whilst he slowly becomes more and more frail and weakens as he succumbs to the terrible demands of cancer have been heartbreaking to witness, but just as my incredible team at Spot have kept me going, so too have the army of amazing doctors, nurses and admin teams, including the housekeeping and catering teams and lovely Roy, the car parking chap, here at the hospital.

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He might not see 2020 now!

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On ‎05‎/‎01‎/‎2019 at 23:24, Death Impends said:

While doing some checkup on Gerard Basset just now, I'd discovered his wife runs a blog about a cafe she currently runs. It includes the occasional update on Gerard, and this latest one from two days ago doesn't suggest long... :skull:

 

 

 

He's died apparently.

 

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Sad to hear that. He seemed like a really great guy. 

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