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The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

Applied for a "Warm Body" Job 1995. Now He Runs a World-Class Winery Pt. 1-9

Sep 9, 2026 · 41m

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Justin Ennis, Senior Director of Winemaking at Joseph Phelps Freestone Vineyards, takes us back to 1995 — his very first harvest at Hartford Court. Born and raised in Sonoma County with wine always in his peripheral vision, it was a nudge from his stepfather that turned an 18-year-old's summer job into a lifelong calling. What hooked him wasn't the wine — it was the people from Portugal, France, and Australia working right beside him.