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Tasting the New Jonata Wines From Santa Barbara

Posted: Oct 24, 2007 3:32pm ET

Before he bought Screaming Eagle (along with business partner Stanley Kroenke), which placed him at the apex of the Napa Valley wine world, Charles Banks staked a claim in Santa Barbara County. Planting what amounted to be an experimental vineyard there in 2000 was, he said, “a total crapshoot.

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