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Wine 101: Chateau Montelena Part IV

Summary by VinePair
While Mike Grgich was making his way from communist Yugoslavia to California, a successful attorney from Los Angeles named Jim Barrett purchased Chateau Montelena from Lee and Helen Paschich, a married couple who’d turned the estate into their residence. Soon after, Barrett hired Grgich as head winemaker and, around the same time, Bo Barrett, his 20-year-old son, as the “cellar rat.” As a former vineyard apprentice himself, Grgich took the young…
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VinePair broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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