Barry Wiss
Appearances
Blood Vines
White Zin is In: 1
Two big producers, the Madhavi family and the Barrett family, they were saying, this is just a flash, it's going to go away, it's just a trend, it'll be dead in a year.
Blood Vines
White Zin is In: 1
And so Bob really took the advantage of that. And he said, I'm going to lock up all the contracts to buy Zinfandel. I'm going to buy as much as Zinfandel as California has. And that he did.
Blood Vines
The Grape Broker: 2
As Sutter Homes' Barry Wiss told me... If there was any kind of reference to good wine, really great wine, it had to come from Europe. It had to come from France. You know, there's no way to produce great wine in the United States. But I think White Zinfandel introduced people to, hey, this is just something that tastes good. Wine just tastes good.