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Wineries add some hip to their sip
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People taste wine in the Red Room at Raymond Vineyards in St. Helena. Under the guidance of Jean-Charles Boisset, scion of a French winemaking family who is married to Gina Gallo of the American Gallo wine dynasty, this winery has undergone a major change in recent years. - photo by Photo Contributed
NAPA (AP) — The tiki tasting hut in the barrel room of the Judd’s Hill winery is a tipoff: This isn’t your old-school faux chateau.Which is just the way Napa Valley winemaker Judd Finkelstein and his family want things.“Much to my delight, one of the most common compliments is, ‘This has been a lot of fun. We really like coming here; it’s not stuffy,’” says Finkelstein. “That’s music to my ears.”A few miles north, at Raymond Vineyards in St. Helena, owner Jean-Charles Boisset has been shaking up old winery paradigms.