Winemaker Profile: Hall Wines 

RICHARD BATCHELOR

by Nan Reiley
Sixty-five hundred miles, as the crow flies, away from home in New Zealand, Hall Winemaker Richard Batchelor has found his new digs in California’s Wine Country to be much to his liking.
In 2000, with his freshly-conferred degree in viticulture and enology in hand (from Lincoln University in Christchurch), Richard was determined to set out to visit the different wine regions of the world. He landed at St. Francis Winery & Vineyards in Sonoma County at the end of August, 2000. Here he hit the harvest running, so to speak, and when the grape juice had...

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