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Hunter Wine Cellars, LLC Receives 2008 Best of Sebastopol Award

U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement

WASHINGTON D.C., October 21, 2008 -- Hunter Wine Cellars, LLC has been selected for the 2008 Best of Sebastopol Award in the Wineries category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.

About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)

U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.

The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.

SOURCE: U.S. Local Business Association

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U.S. Local Business Association
Email: PublicRelations@USLBA.net
URL: http://www.USLBA.net


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April 03, 2008

2008 Pinot Releases - from the 2006 Vintage Year

The 2006 appellation Pinot Noirs, Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley, have been released. We are very pleased with how these wines, from a challenging harvest, have turned out.
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March 13, 2008

Sonoma's Great Grape Hunter

Bill Hunter featured in Business Week Magazine
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March 23, 2007

Wine Spectator James Laube Blog

Tasting Highlights: 2004 and 2005 California Pinot Noir More great wines as vintages shift gears. James Laube – hree years ago, if someone told you there would be dozens, even hundreds of outstanding California Pinot Noirs to savor, you might have raised a skeptical eyebrow.
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March 15, 2007

Food and Wine Online Blog

F&W Blog Tasting Room By Ray Isle, Senior Wine Editor – Had dinner last night at Telepan with Bill Hunter, the owner (along with Billington Imports, in some capacity) and winemaker at Chasseur.
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December 31, 2006

Wine Spectator - Top 30 Pinot Wineries

Sometimes even producers are perplexed by what a vintage has to offer. During the 2004 growing season, Chasseur winemaker and owner Bill Hunter feared the worst during a September heat wave that hammered Sonoma with 100 degree temperatures. “I thought it would be a washout. But then about a month after harvest, when tasting the wines, I was very pleased,” he says."
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October 15, 2006

Connoisseur's Guide Oct '06 - Featured Article

"You see a picture of estimable winemaker, Bill Hunter, just over there, and by now, you have probably read the caption for the photo. If not, let us simply tell you that Mr. Hunter is proving, in his latest releases, that he not only knows how to make good wine, but more importantly, that he knows how to make great, world-class wine. Of course, Mr. Hunter is not the only winemaker whose efforts deliver masterful expressions of Chardonnay’s incredible potential."
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August 28, 2006

Wine Spectator Praise for Pinot Noirs

"I’d put the 2004 Chasseur Pinots in the run-don’t-walk camp if you want to buy any. They are further proof of how far and how fast this grape has come in California. They’re excellent wines--well crafted, exquisitely balanced--and they show that Chasseur does what it takes to make distinctive wines, bending the styles to suit the grape and the winemaker’s preference." - James Laube Unfined, Wine Spectator
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July 15, 2006

Bill Hunter - A Top Winemaker in California

"Chardonnay- and pinot noir-maker, Bill Hunter of Chasseur winery, whose latest efforts have finished at the very top of my tastings, also rates highly with me. Only the fact that he has just now expanded his line, and many of his wines have only been seen for a couple of vintages, keeps Hunter from rating directly alongside Ramey and Hobbs for top honors." - Column by Charles Olken, Inside Bay Area
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February 17, 2006

Taking Sides in the Butter Battle - Wall Street Journal

To our surprise, this is a question we have been asked with increasing frequency over the past six months: Where can I get a buttery American Chardonnay? Or, as Jacqueline Jenkins of Riverside, Calif., put it: "The long-lost buttery Chardonnay of yesteryear -- oh, how we miss them." The reason we're surprised is that "buttery" is a word that was just about banned from public wine discourse several years ago. The fact that readers feel comfortable enough to ask about these wines again is, we think, a trend in the making.
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February 01, 2005

More Than 250 Great Wines From Around The World - Wine Spectator

2005 Editor’s Picks California Chardonnay
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