{"id":37,"date":"2013-09-06T06:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivid.tickled3.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2023-07-27T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T09:05:38","slug":"the-winemaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/the-winemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;max-width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><style type='text\/css'>.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:before,.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:after{opacity:0.1;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:var(--awb-color2);border-width:1px;border-color:rgba(226,226,226,0);border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><h2>Ulrich Hoffmann - an energetic, motivated and passionate winemaker<\/h2><div class=\"reading-box-description fusion-reading-box-additional\">Exceptional vinification and vineyard technology skills from over 20 years of international experience in the field.<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:-70px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Ulrich was born and grew up in Berlin, soon realising that\u00a0not beer but wine was his passion and he moved to South\u00a0Germany in 1999 to work for the prestigious Wine Estate\u00a0Rolf Willy in Baden- Wuerttemberg while completing a two\u00a0and a half years trade examination degree to become a\u00a0qualified winemaker. During his time at Rolf Willy he\u00a0successfully contributed to four vintages including one as\u00a0assistant winemaker.<\/p>\n<p>He finished top of all classes in Germany and received a further grant to study enology and\u00a0viticulture at the State Research Institute for Viticulture and Enology in Weinsberg. Working\u00a0intensively on projects regarding optimal sparkling wine production in difficult climate years\u00a0and finishing his studies successfully with his final thesis about the variants of oak chips and\u00a0their influences on white and red wine.<\/p>\n<p>The vintages in Germany gave Ulrich a detailed understanding of the full range of German\u00a0grape varietals and their production for the vinification of white, ros\u00e9, red and sparkling wine.\u00a0While still studying he was hired for the well known Rioja Winery Artadi to work as assistant\u00a0winemaker for the 2005 vintage at their sister winery \u201cBodegas y Vi\u00f1edos Artazu\u201d in Navarra\u00a0under the guidance of Juan Carlos L\u00f3pez de La Calle and Jean- Francois Gadeau and left for\u00a0Spain on the day of his commendation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the potential of the young and evolving English wine industry he relocated to south\u00a0England in 2006 performing two vintages as winemaker at Bolney Wine Estate\u00a0in Sussex and\u00a0created an award winning still wines for the Gusbourne Estate in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Striving to always expand his winemaking horizon he decided to work in California&#8217;s Napa\u00a0Valley for the 2008 Vintage at \u201cCain Vineyards and Winery\u201d, a Boutique Winery producing\u00a0ultra- premium Bordeaux Style Wines. Impressed by his winemaking skills he was kept on by\u00a0Winemaker Chris Howell and associate winemaker Francois Bugue.<\/p>\n<p>Ulrich<b>\u02bc<\/b>s Californian connection opened him doors to spend the 2009 vintage as assistant\u00a0winemaker in France with Stephen Carrier for Chateau de Fieuzal and affiliated Chateau\u00a0Haut- Gard\u00e9re in L\u00e9ognan south of Bordeaux, crafting Grand Cru Class\u00e9 Wines.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks fluent English and German and has good communication skills in Spanish and\u00a0French. Ulrich resides in Hove concentrating on his winemaking consultancy business\u00a0building up his portfolio in the UK as well as Italy, Spain and the Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Ulrich is a Panel-Chair at the International Wine Challenge, the most influential wine competition in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vivid-wines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}