Inside Winemaking - the art and science of growing grapes and crafting wine
Oct 6, 2026 · 55 min · 19 segments
In this episode, I talk with Ry Richards, winemaker at Chappellet on Pritchard Hill, about his circuitous path from selling wine in high school to learning enology on the job and growing into his…
And this year is going to be light because of the harvest, you know, just with set and shatter this year, which I've had, you know, walking fields.
I had one very veteran grower refer to it as almost magnificent because it's just the amount of shatter out there is uncanny.
I think that that's almost like Seavey's a little bit of a diamond in the rough on that end of things.
Not only do we have the estate, but we source from vineyards all the way south of across from Napa College into Sugarloaf.
On, you know, ridges in Atlas Peak, we've actually have Malbec and Petit Verdot that shattered to 100%.
And this year is going to be light because of the harvest, you know, just with set and shatter this year, which I've had, you know, walking fields.
I had one very veteran grower refer to it as almost magnificent because it's just the amount of shatter out there is uncanny.
I think that that's almost like Seavey's a little bit of a diamond in the rough on that end of things.
Not only do we have the estate, but we source from vineyards all the way south of across from Napa College into Sugarloaf.
On, you know, ridges in Atlas Peak, we've actually have Malbec and Petit Verdot that shattered to 100%.
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