{"id":1800,"date":"2022-01-23T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2022-01-23T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:36:19","slug":"winemaker-interview-series-matt-brain-of-alpha-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Winemaker Interview Series — Matt Brain of Alpha Omega"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On December 8th<\/sup>, Alpha Omega winemaker Matt Brain<\/strong><\/a>, joined the Tasting Panel on Zoom to cover 10 of his new release wines. We learned a lot about Matt’s technical background and how he came to be Alpha Omega's currant winemaker.<\/p>\n

We also had a little fun talking about his former Baker & Brain project where I once scored a 2016 Gruner Veltliner<\/strong><\/a> he co-produced 92 points<\/strong>. It was fun bringing up that wine and to get the history on his relationship with Josh Baker.<\/p>\n

Below is a summary of all the impressive wines that we covered with Matt. The links are to our full reviews<\/strong>. If you are interested in ordering these wines, you should most likely reach out to the winery directly<\/strong><\/a>. I am sure the concierge service team will be very happy to assist you.<\/p>\n

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  1. Alpha Omega 2020 Sauvignon Blanc “1155”<\/a> <\/strong>(Napa Valley) $85 (KWGTP 91.5<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  2. Alpha Omega 2019 Chardonnay “Napa Valley”<\/strong><\/a> 100% $85 (KWGTP 94<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  3. Alpha Omega 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon “Napa Valley”<\/strong><\/a> $108\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 93<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  4. Alpha Omega 2019 “Proprietary Red”<\/strong><\/a> (Napa Valley) $108 (KWGTP 93)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Alpha Omega 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon “Cordes Vineyard”<\/strong><\/a> (Atlas Peak) $245\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 96<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  6. Alpha Omega 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon “Drew Vineyard”<\/strong><\/a> (Mt. Veeder) $245\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 95<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  7. Alpha Omega 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon “Sunshine Valley Vineyard”<\/strong><\/a> (Oak Knoll) $245\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 95<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  8. Alpha Omega 2019 “Right Bank”<\/strong><\/a> (Napa Valley) $108\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 92.5<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  9. Alpha Omega 2019 Petit Verdot<\/strong><\/a> (Napa Valley) $110\u00c2\u00a0(KWGTP 96<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  10. Alpha Omega 2019 “ERA”<\/strong><\/a> (Napa Valley) $305 (KWGTP 97<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On December 8th, Alpha Omega winemaker Matt Brain, joined the Tasting Panel on Zoom to cover 10 of his new release wines. We learned a lot about Matt’s technical background and how he came to be Alpha Omega's currant winemaker. We also had a little fun talking about his former Baker & Brain project where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[602,18,13,1405,1201,1187,9,126,8,6,240,1292,1288],"tags":[1408,904,1407,625,491,1410,1411,1416,792,1406,649,507,1414,866,1409,1415,1412,1413],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha-omega","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-chardonnay","category-matt-brain","category-red-blend","category-red-wine","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-wine-ratings","category-wine-recommendations","category-wine-reviews","category-wine-tasting","category-winemaker","category-zoom-wine-tasting","tag-1155-sauvignon-blanc","tag-alpha-omega","tag-baker-brain","tag-cabernet-sauvignon","tag-chardonnay","tag-cordes-vineyard","tag-drew-vineyard","tag-era","tag-kwg-tasting-panel","tag-matt-brain","tag-mt-veeder","tag-napa-valley","tag-oak-knoll","tag-petit-verdot","tag-proprietary-red","tag-right-bank","tag-sunshine-valley","tag-vineyard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}