November 8

November 8, 1926: James L. ‘Jim’ Barrett, owner of Chateau Montelena whose Chardonnay won the 1976 Judgment of Paris, was born November 8, 1926.

November 8, 1969: Eric LeVine was born. A former Microsoft programmer, LeVine is the inventor of CellarTracker, a wine database used all over the world since 2003, and is the founder and CEO of the company that manages said database.

November 8, 1974: During this month, Giuseppe Martinelli and Giovanni Cappelli, after attending the Decoration and Alfresco courses, engraved a sheet of zinc and pulled directly to 2,900 bottles of the Barbaresco Masseria.

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