{"id":11613,"date":"2015-07-22T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:39:20","slug":"randall-grahm-goal-is-to-create-the-first-new-world-grand-cru-at-popelouchum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/randall-grahm-goal-is-to-create-the-first-new-world-grand-cru-at-popelouchum\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Grahm: Goal is to Create The First New World Grand Cru at Popelouchum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Grahm, California winemaker and author, is reaching out to numerous wine enthusiasts about a new project he is developing. In his recent email, he writes: \u201c To (slightly) paraphrase Brillat-Savarin, \u2018The discovery of a new <i>grand cru<\/i> brings more happiness to humanity than the discovery of a new star.\u201d\u00a0 While I imagine that some people may disagree with this assessment, it does showcase the importance that a new grand cru might bring to the wine world.<\/p>\n<p>Grahm\u2019s initiative is to create\/discover a \u2018wine of place\u2019 for the New World. He describes\u00a0his idea as one that would create a &#8216;wine of place&#8221; by breeding 10,000 new grape varieties. He notes that there is the potential benefit of identifying one or more new genius varieties. The massive project is to take place at Popelouchum close to San Juan Bautista, California. If you have any interest in Popelouchum be sure to check out the extensive information online at Indiegogo.<\/p>\n<p>You might wonder why Grahm is reaching out to others. This long term initiative of Grahm\u2019s will take massive amounts of money and Grahm has established a crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo for it. The goal is to reach $350,000. Already the contributions have reached more than $26,000\u00a0and there is still a month left for the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Interested people can help by contributing as little as $5 to as much as $5,000. Nine categories of contributions with increasing benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$5 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Join the Dooniverse<\/li>\n<li>$25 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3 signed posters<\/li>\n<li>$35 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Webinar with Randall<\/li>\n<li>$65 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Book + Tasting Flight for 4<\/li>\n<li>$75 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Name Your New Grape Variety + Flights for 4<\/li>\n<li>$250 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Picnic for 2 at Popelouchum<\/li>\n<li>$800 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dinner for 4 at Popelouchum<\/li>\n<li>$1500 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wine Club Membership + Dinner for 2<\/li>\n<li>$5000 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wine Club Membership + Dinner for 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/popelouchum-vineyard-10-000-grapes-for-a-new-wine#\/story\">Indiegogo website<\/a> to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Randall Grahm: Goal is to Create The First New World Grand Cru at Popelouchum\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11613\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Grahm, California winemaker and author, is reaching out to numerous wine enthusiasts about a new project he is developing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[3419,114,3417,1933,3418,983,98],"class_list":["post-11613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-crowdfunding","tag-grapes","tag-indiegogo","tag-new-world","tag-popelouchum","tag-randall-grahm","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}