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Old-School California Cabernet, No. XVII: Louis M. Martini

Old-School California Cabernet, No. XVII: Louis M. Martini

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Fredric Koeppel
Feb 17, 2012
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Highway 29 around St. Helena so long ago turned into a carnival of showcase wineries, tasting-rooms and traffic jams that it's difficult to imagine what the Napa Valley was like in 1934 when Italian immigrant Louis M. Martini moved from the Central Valley and founded his eponymous winery. What else was there? Beringer, Beaulieu, Inglenook, Charles Krug,…

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