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    Mount Eden

    Aug 07, 2019 5 minutes

    A WEEK AFTER Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding last year, Jeffrey Patterson, owner and winemaker of California’s Mount Eden Vineyards, learned that the royal couple had served one of his Pinot Noirs at their wedding reception.

    ‘It was like a judgement,’ says Patterson. ‘We were out front on the world stage.’ With Mount Eden’s long, layered, 75-year history and critically acclaimed, terroir-driven wines, it totally deserves to be there.

    ‘For decades Mount Eden has been doing something highly unusual for a California boutique winery’

    Patterson and his wife, Ellie, have been part of that history for nearly 40 years. You could say they’ve dedicated all their working lives to this winery and vineyards on an isolated ridge 600m up in California’s rugged Santa Cruz Mountains, south of

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