He even earned a Level I Sommelier Certification, and designed a wine list that was nationally recognized and earned Sona a coveted Grand Award from Wine Spectator in 2006. The restaurant opened the following year, and after just 6 months, Joshua’s talents from Café Boulud were greatly recognized and he was offered the distinguished position of Wine Director. In 2001, Joshua had the opportunity to move west, enroll at USC’s Marshall School of Business, and be a part of the opening team for one of Los Angeles’ most acclaimed restaurants, Sona. It is easy to see why Joshua’s time at Café Boulud is what lead him to his great passion in life - wine. He also participated in weekly wine seminars that further opened his mind and palate to the expansive world of wine. Over the next three years, Joshua became an expert at blind tasting, he mastered the art of food and wine pairing and was exposed to some of the most renowned winemakers and vintages in the world. After just one year, Joshua found himself amidst the elite working at Café Boulud - he was just nineteen years old and one of the youngest servers ever to work at the acclaimed restaurant.
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Instead, he followed the nontraditional path and started a professional serving career at New York’s Coco Pazzo restaurant. Joshua Klapper grew up in Manhattan, New York and though he always had an insatiable thirst for learning, he decided not to pursue college immediately after high school.
Today his small-production winery turns out exceptional wines that could rival any on the Central Coast.
Joshua began making wines in 2005 on California’s Central Coast and realized that his Sommelier training had been the perfect preparation.
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Sommelier turned winemaker Joshua Klapper is the founder of this month’s Pinot Noir Wine Club Series selection, La Fenêtre Wines. La Fenêtre Wines Central Coast AVA A very balanced, food friendly, and terroir-driven wine! SIP Certified boasts strict, non-negotiable requirements and standards based on science, expert input, independent verification, transparency and the absence of conflict of interest. It utilizes a whole farm, integrated approach to vineyard management enabling farmers and winemakers to preserve and protect the environment and human resources. Launched in 2008, Sustainability in Practice (SIP) Certified is one of the wine industry’s oldest and most important third-party assessment programs. Our mission is to promote healthier land, happier people and more complex and thought-provoking wines.” “To maintain certification, our vineyards and wineries must also embrace sound, ethical business practices and treat their employees and community with care and respect. “SIP Certified goes well beyond environmental preservation,” said Beth Vukmanic Lopez, SIP Certified Manager. SIP Certified wineries include Chamisal and Niner with more to be added soon. SIP Certified wines include bottlings from Ampelos Cellars, Ancient Peaks, Baileyana Winery, Baker & Brain, Byron, Cambria Estate, Carmel Road, Cass, Castoro Cellars, Chamisal, Claiborne & Churchill, Edna Valley, Hahn Family Wines, Halter Ranch, Hilliard Bruce, J Wilkes, La Fenêtre, McIntyre Vineyards, Nielson, Opolo, Paraiso, Peachy Canyon, Pomar Junction, Presqu’ile, Prizm, Riverbench, Robert Hall, Shell Creek, Sostener, Stonestreet, Talley, Tangent, Terra Robles, Timbre, Tolosa and Zocker. Original SIP Certified Vineyards (Since 2008)įor a complete list of the nearly 200 SIP Certified ranches and vineyards visit SIP Certified vineyards include Ampelos Cellars, Castoro Cellars, Hahn Family Wines, Halter Ranch, Hilliard Bruce, Jackson Family Wines, Laetitia Vineyard & Winery, Paragon Vineyard, Smith Family Wines, Pomar Junction Vineyards & Winery and Wolff Vineyards. With the creation of SIP Certified in 2008, the organization instituted stricter standards (vineyard farming rules) and shifted from self-assessment to measurable and verifiable third-party certification. The Vineyard Team pioneered the Positive Points System (PPS) – the first self-assessment for vineyards utilizing a whole farm, integrated approach to vineyard management. SIP Certified evolved from the innovative and award-winning programs of the Vineyard Team, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainability since 1994.
Today, there are 43,600 acres of vines in California and Michigan and more than 36 million bottles of wine that have been SIP Certified. SIP Certified launched its pilot program in 2008 with 3,700 acres of vines between Monterey and Santa Barbara counties. Atascadero, California, J– Sustainability in Practice (SIP) Certified celebrates 10 years of protecting natural and human resources with its rigorous sustainable vineyard, winery and wine certification program.
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