RECOGNITION

SOMM JOURNAL

A Look at ATC’S Brands and Winemakers

Julien Fayard is looking to some of Napa Valley’s most venerable vineyards for the Beau Vigne label.

— Michelle Ball

WINE INDUSTRY ADVISOR

Brion Debuts New Winery and Opens for Private Tastings

Julien Fayard is responsible for interpreting the Sleeping Lady Vineyard in the Yountville AVA.

PENN LIVE

Views from a Napa Valley Winemaker: Julien Fayard

Wine Access announced recently that it has started to partner with some of the most acclaimed winemakers in Napa and Sonoma, including Fayard, Maayan Koschitzky, Britt Nichols, and others, to make exclusive wines for its customers at prices that should be more accessible to consumer nationwide.

— Paul Vigna

CRU PODCAST

How to Approach Making Exceptional Wine

Julien Fayard is a consulting winemaker based in Coombsville, CA making wines for Le Piche, Azur, Purlieu Wines, Covert Estate, and many more.

— Chappy Cottrell

WINE ADVOCATE

Winemaker Spotlight: Julien Fayard

These days, Julien is the winemaker for Purlieu and Le Pich and he consults for many other wineries including Taplin Cellars and Caspar Estate.

— Erin Brooks

Robb Report

These Cabernets From Brion Will Change How You Think About Napa Cabs

Each winemaker had worked with the properties and “understood the vineyard and how to get the best from it,” says Wise. “My intent was, and is, to marry each vineyard with a winemaker whose style best fits what comes from the land.”

— Sara L. Schneider

Bar Business Magazine

Julien Fayard Named Head Winemaker for Danica Patrick’s Somnium

Wine Spectator

Covert Estate’s French Influence

Winemaker Julien Fayard's Napa Cabernets have a bright future. Granted, February isn't exactly springtime. But Napa isn't New York City (my hometown).

— James Molesworth

WINE FOLLY

So You Want To Be a Consulting Winemaker

The role of “flying winemaker” is one of the coolest wine jobs out there. What’s a flying winemaker? We asked consulting winemaker extraordinaire, Julien Fayard, to fill us in on what it takes to do his job.

WINE ENTHUSIAST

Coombsville—Napa Valley’s Rising Star

Also coaxing structure from Coombsville grapes is Julien Fayard of Covert Estate, one of the appellation’s few wineries open to visitors by appointment.

— Virginie Boone

Robb Report

Meet Julien Fayard, the French Winemaker Bringing Skill and Emotion to Napa Valley

Julien Fayard tops the charts with his own wines, including a perfect 100-pointer… “The Julien Fayard lineup is a single-vineyard project, a study in terroir emphasized by the fact that the vineyard in question is highlighted in gold against its surroundings on each label.”

— Sara L. Schneider

SOMM TV: A Glass for Every Palate

Host Shakera Jones talks with Danica Patrick and Julien Fayard about the wines that changed their lives, the start of Somnium wine, and fascinating wine pairings.

Robb Report

Meet the Independent Winemakers Creating Some of the World’s Best Wines in Napa

They’re amplifying the inherent diversity of the West Coast’s best wine regions.

— Sara L. Schneider

Robb Report

Julien Fayard is a Wine Whisperer Worth Watching

A student of Bordeaux and the French masters before him, Fayard is forging his own path in California wine country.

— Sara L. Schneider