Word: moramarco
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...Moramarco has wine in his blood. His ancestors made wine for eight generations in southern Italy, and after his grandfather Giuseppe emigrated to the U.S., he bought a winery in Los Angeles from the Jesuits during Prohibition. Jon's father was an expert in vine management--the pruning, spacing, grape thinning and irrigating that influence the quality of the grapes and the taste of the wine. As a young boy, Jon cleared weeds between the vines. He later went to work at the Callaway winery as a "cellar rat," cleaning tanks, moving barrels, stacking bottles and sometimes working...
...still had the stuff in his veins. After earning a degree at the world-famous school of viticulture at the University of California at Davis, and after spending 20 years learning every aspect of the industry, Moramarco, 45, is president and CEO of Canandaigua Wine. With sales of $863 million for its most recent fiscal year, Canandaigua is the second biggest wine company in the world, after E.& J. Gallo Winery, with a reported $1.4 billion in annual sales. But Canandaigua (named after the town in upstate New York where the company was founded in 1945), a unit of publicly...
...Moramarco works long hours directing a company that sold 45 million cases of wine last year. But as the wine industry has become more corporate--60% of U.S. wine is produced by the top five companies--he no longer has much time to stroll through vineyards or sample vintages from the cellar...