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Published on: 2/18/2007
Last Visited: 8/27/2008
Joe Hart, president of the sponsoring Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association, and his Hart Winery proudly served his cabernet franc, while neighboring Callaway was represented by its dolcetto.
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As Joe Hart, of Hart Winery, put it, you can't replicate those 100-year-old vines.
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The owner, Joe Travis Hart, has produced a host of atypical wines such as the Cabernet Franc or the Tempranillo, from the Spanish Rioja grape.The estate-produced Viognier ($18), grown from the Rhone Valley grape, has intensely tropical flavors of pineapple and grapefruit, while the Barbera ($16) has an acidic balance of cherry and oak flavors.Hart also purchases grapes from the old-vine vineyards of nearby Cucamonga Valley, which has a more Mediterranean-like climate.