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HERZOG
WINE CELLARS - OXNARD
Kosher and California Wines with an Imperial History
What
is kosher wine? Pretty much the same as the regular kind. Officially,
it’s just that the winemakers who handle the process are Sabbath
observant Jewish. The idea of what one usually thinks of as kosher
is the sweet grape wine which appears in stores around Passover, but
that is mostly due to the grapes from the east coast in times past.
In California, the Baron Herzog Winery in Oxnard is changing the perception.
With the brand on sale on supermarket shelves beside the familiar Napa
and other varietal names, in fact you might not even notice the religious
connection at all.
The
name traces back to Phillip Herzog, a winemaker in Slovakia who made
wines for the Austro-Hungarian royal court befpe the turn of the last
century. The Herzog wines were so well thought of that the Emperor Franz-Josef
made Philip Herzog a baron. Baron Philip made both kosher wines and non-kosher
for his different clients. The kosher wines were fermented in a separate
cellar, but tasted essentially the same as the other cellar. The winemaking
stopped during the war years. The baron’s grandson Eugene hid the
family from the Nazis in the Slovakian countryside, to emerge after the
war and reclaim the winery. But the post war communist days of didn’t
look much better, and the Herzogs left for New York in 1948.
In
1985, the Herzog family established winemaking operations in California,
with two separate labels - Baron Herzog, a line of premium, award winning,
but moderately priced California varietal wines honouring the old baron’s
imperial past, and Herzog Wine Cellars. After two decades of renting
space in various locations, the family opened their state-of-the-art
winery in a neighbourhood in the town of Oxnard, just south of Santa
Barbara. Under the supervision of head winemaker Joe Hurliman the Herzog
Wine Cellars is a modern and efficient center for top of the class contemporary
winemaking, yet made with a tradition that goes back almost six centuries.
The
vintners of Herzog Wine Cellars don’t have their own vines, but
acquire their grapes from various vineyard suppliers in Northern and
Central California, with select grapes grown especially to be produced
in Oxnard based winery. Wine tasting is offered at the elegantly decorated
granite tasting bar and gift boutique. Private tasting rooms are available
for special occasions and events.
Tierra Sur Restaurant
Within
the Herzog Wine Cellars winery is one of the best restaurants to be
found in the Oxnard area, the Tierra Sur Restaurant of Chef Todd Aaron,
an award winning Californian born chef who has returned to his roots
after his time at the Restaurante Da Delfina in Tuscany, the Savoy
in Manhattan and Zuni Café in San Francisco. The Tierra Sur
features Mediterranean influenced seasonal cuisine sourcing abundant
local grown produce, with a rustic, unpretentious style. Highlights
include pomegranate-marinated lamb, wild king salmon and aged rib-eye
steak cooked outdoors over an open flame. The menu also offers house-made
organic corn tortillas with exotic fillings such as birria (chili-braised
lamb) with salsa cruda and a grilled achiote-marinated red snapper
with tomatillo salsa. A prix fixe wine tasters dinner with Herzog wine
pairings to match each course is a popular offering at the Tierra Sur. © Bargain
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