Roudon-Smith Winery, 1998-2005 from the Web Winery archive
Roudon-Smith was on the original Web Winery by December 1998, and its pages kept older material too, back to a 1995 tribute to co-founder Annamaria Roudon. They told the founding story, featured the internet-only Clos du Web, and reprinted the columns June Smith wrote for the Santa Cruz Sentinel from 2001 to 2003, many of them about other local winemakers. 24 entries, from March 22, 1989 to July 9, 2003, each with a link to the original page on the Wayback Machine.
1989
Press
Roudon-Smith listed among top ten food wineries
A 1989 wire story reported that the Wine & Food Companion newsletter had named ten small California wineries, Roudon-Smith among them, whose wines most reliably matched food. The list covered wineries from Santa Barbara County to Sonoma.
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1995
History
Memorial page for co-founder Annamaria Roudon
An obituary-style tribute to Annamaria Roudon, who co-founded Roudon-Smith Winery with her husband Bob and died of cancer at home in November 1995, aged 71. It traced her German upbringing, her art and design work, and her community volunteering.
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1996
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Clos du Web named Winery of the Day
A short online review picked Roudon-Smith as its Winery of the Day in September 1996, featuring Clos du Web, a non-vintage red sold only over the internet. The reviewer noted the blend's grapes were undisclosed and that it had already sold out.
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Connection Magazine visit and Clos du Web
A magazine feature from autumn 1996 described a visit to the Roudon-Smith tasting room on Bean Creek Road, a wine dinner at Oswald restaurant in Santa Cruz, the owners' community roles, and the launch of the internet-only Clos du Web red.
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Chamber of Commerce business success profile
A Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce newsletter profiled Roudon-Smith in December 1996: how two Amdahl engineers and their wives started the winery, how they split the work, and how production and tasting hours were being cut back as the owners eased into semi-retirement.
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1998
Winemaker
Biography of winemaker Bob Roudon
The winery's biography of co-founder and winemaker Robert Roudon covered his Army service in Germany, his music degree, his move into engineering and home winemaking, and the founding of Roudon-Smith with Jim Smith, with its first vintage made in his basement in 1972.
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Winery page
Roudon-Smith winery home page and history
The winery's own home page told the founding story of Roudon-Smith: two engineering couples, a first crush in a basement, a larger winery near Scotts Valley in 1978, and a later cut to 2,000 cases in semi-retirement. It also listed a monthly wine special.
The goal was (and still is) to maintain a size of operation that can be sustained and hand-operated by the Roudon-Smith workforce itself.
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1999
Winemaker
The two families behind Roudon-Smith
A one-line page named the partners in Roudon-Smith: James and June Smith and Robert and Annamaria Roudon.
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2000
Event
Vintners' Festival 2000 tasting, Inn at Scotts Valley
A photo notice announced that Roudon-Smith and Pelican Ranch Winery would pour at the new Inn at Scotts Valley during the June 2000 Vintners' Festival, listing the Roudon-Smith wines to be poured, including a special reserve Zinfandel.
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2001
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Santa Cruz Sentinel: A woman's place is in the wine-making business
Roudon-Smith Winery reprinted this column on its pages. It is listed once, under Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 14, 2001.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel: They dared to take a great leap of faith
Roudon-Smith Winery reprinted this column on its pages. It is listed once, under Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 14, 2001.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel: Valerie Ahlgren, Ahlgren Vineyard
Roudon-Smith Winery reprinted this column on its pages. It is listed once, under Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 16, 2001.
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Feature on Santa Cruz and Monterey wine character
A July 2001 visitor feature described wine touring around Monterey Bay, comparing the Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey growing areas. It quoted Pamela Storrs of Storrs Winery and June Smith of Roudon-Smith on climate, grape choices and Chardonnay ageing.
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Sentinel column on Women of Wine, part four
The fourth installment of June Smith's Santa Cruz Sentinel series on local women in wine, from August 2001. It profiled the women of Thunder Mountain Winery and Clos LaChance Wines, plus wine educator Mary Ericson and her classes on Santa Cruz Mountains wines.
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Sentinel column on women behind local wineries
A December 2001 Santa Cruz Sentinel column by June Smith profiled Sandy Obester of Obester Winery, whose grandfather founded Gemello Winery, and Jane Prough of the distributor Epic Wines, describing how each came into the wine business.
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2002
Photographs
Survivor contestant Lex van den Berghe visits
A 2002 photo item from the winery showed June Smith welcoming Santa Cruz resident Lex van den Berghe of the TV show Survivor: Africa, who received gift bottles, with Good Times writer Josie Cowden on hand to interview him.
PS: Lex loved the 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon
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June Smith remembers Annamaria Roudon
In a January 2002 Santa Cruz Sentinel column, June Smith told how the Roudons and Smiths founded Roudon-Smith and recalled her late partner Annamaria Roudon's role in the early vineyard and bookkeeping. She also described neighbours Dick and Linda Smothers, and included a recipe.
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June Smith's column on meeting Tom Hanks
A July 2002 personal Santa Cruz Sentinel column by June Smith recalled working as an extra on the 1989 film Turner & Hooch in Pacific Grove, meeting Tom Hanks, and later sending him a bottle of Roudon-Smith Cabernet.
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June Smith on a dolphin refuge in Moorea
A travel column by June Smith of Roudon-Smith described a trip to Moorea in French Polynesia with marine biologist Michael Poole, a UC Santa Cruz graduate working to protect the island's spinner dolphins. It did not concern the winery.
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2003
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Sentinel column on winemakers as cooks
A March 2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel column by June Smith on the cooking of local vintners. It featured Paul Wofford, winemaker at Bargetto Winery, and Milan Maximovich of Thunder Mountain Winery, with a recipe from each and their pairing advice.
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Sentinel report: Roudon-Smith winery put up for sale
An April 2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel article reported that Bob Roudon and Jim and June Smith had put their Scotts Valley winery on the market to retire fully. It described the property, the valuable early use permit, and the owners' plans.
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Sentinel column on Salamandre's Wells Shoemaker
A June 2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel column by June Smith profiled Wells Shoemaker, a Watsonville pediatrician who co-founded Salamandre Wine Cellars in Aptos in 1975, covering his medical writing, his playful newsletters and a pasta recipe.
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Sentinel column profiling Bob Roudon as cook
A June 2003 entry in June Smith's Sentinel 'Winemakers in the Kitchen' series profiled her partner Bob Roudon: his Texas roots, his retirement split with wife Kay between Santa Cruz and Nice, his view of music and winemaking, and a Texas stew recipe.
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Sentinel column on Botavina's Patrick Butler
A July 2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel column by June Smith profiled Patrick Butler, a naturopath and UC Davis-trained winemaker who created Botavina, an herb-infused wine, and shared his ziti recipe.
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