Jesse Katz | Source | Founder & Winemaker at Aperture Cellars
Jesse Katz
Early adventures to legendary vineyards gave Jesse Katz a profound respect for the creative art of winemaking. Jesse creates distinct, nuanced wines for his brands Aperture Cellars and Devil Proof Vineyards, while serving as a consulting winemaker for some of the world’s most prestigious wines. The crafting of his famed Malbec, Devil Proof, has earned some of the highest ratings of the varietal from today's leading wine critics. In 2013, Wine Enthusiast named Jesse one of its 40 Under 40 Tastemakers, and he continues to work with some of the most famed and celebrated winemakers around the world.
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This winemaker to the stars has opened a Sonoma tasting room of his own - here's a preview
The wine wunderkind, 36-year-old Jesse Katz, has had his hands in several of high-profile projects over the last decade. He has made custom-label wines for celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Tony Hawk, and Ellen DeGeneres. He worked at Screaming Eagle. He studied in France. He created a malbec that Robert Parker called the best he’d ever tasted.
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Aperture Cellars Wines: An Aesthetic & Sensory Tour-De-Force
Jesse Katz has been called a wunderkind, a boy genius, a maverick — and the winemaker behind Devil Proof Malbec, the best Malbec in California’s history, is all those things.
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Aperture Cellars (https://aperture-cellars.com/)
Founder & Winemaker
started Sep 2009