Winemaker at CRU Winery inspiring others with path and craft

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As we observe Hispanic and Latin American History Month, we're shining a airy connected a section winemaker who has taken a unsocial way to prosecute his passion.

Behind each solid of vino you bask astatine CRU Winery successful Madera County is Jose Reyes.

He is the winemaker who pours agelong hours and dedication into the delicate craft.

"This is similar a imagination for me. It's thing I ne'er expected would happen," said Reyes.

Reyes came to the United States from Mexico astatine the property of 14.

He began his travel successful the vino manufacture by moving the bottling enactment astatine Bargetto Winery successful the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Reyes says the winemaker determination saw his imaginable and helped him grow.

"He pushed maine wrong the cellar and started teaching maine however to usage the equipment," Reyes explained.

That acquisition helped him gain a occupation arsenic Cellar Master astatine CRU successful 2009, wherever helium became the winemaker successful 2017.

He present works with a squad of four, including his son, Juan, and Eriq Davila.

"He brings a batch of that creator broadside to the winemaking, truthful I americium picking and learning from his styles, making his pinot and chardonnay," said Davila.

The process of winemaking is simply a agelong one.

From monitoring vineyards astatine the seashore and harvesting successful the mediate of the night, to crushing grapes and fermentation.

Reyes says the extremity effect is worthy each measurement and knowing however overmuch the assemblage enjoys the last merchandise makes it adjacent sweeter.

"I privation to permission a story. Jose made this one, and past I tin say, VAMONOS!" Reyes said.

His vocation besides inspires chap Latinos and his children, including his 10 twelvemonth aged daughter.

"I consciousness similar if we privation it, if we similar it, if we bask it, past let's bash it. If we truly similar what we do, let's bash it," said Reyes.

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