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- DEMOND WILSON DIDN'T THINK THE SHOW WOULD LAST VERY LONG WHEN HE SIGNED UP. Demond Wilson caught the attention of executive producer Bud Yorkin during a guest appearance on All in the Family in 1971, where he played a burglar who broke into Archie Bunker's house.
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Sanford was born on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in March 1941, the son of a naval officer. Nine months later, Japanese warplanes flew directly over their home on their way to blow up Pearl Harbor. While his father fought the war in the Pacific, the rest of the Sanford family relocated to California, first to a Baldwin Hills apartment and then to a ...
Sanford did not grow up with wine on the dinner table. But while in the navy, an officer named, no joke, Scott Wine introduced Sanford to a bottle of Volnay, a French pinot noir from Burgundy. “I still remember that Volnay,” said Sanford. “That became my threshold.” So Sanford studied a century of weather reports from Burgundy, cross-referenced wit...
Just a year after walking away from their first vineyard, Richard and Thekla founded Sanford Winery in 1981, buying grapes from other vineyards at first. In 1983, they turned a Buellton warehouse into a winery and hired Bruno D’Alfonso as a full-time winemaker, a job he kept for a quarter-century. Sanford came into his own as the vintner, which is ...
One sunny afternoon last month, Sanford sat in his car on the side of Santa Rosa Road, beset on all sides by vineyards he either planted (Sanford & Benedict, La Rinconada) or inspired (Fiddlestix, Sea Smoke, Mt. Carmel). He stared out at the palatial Sanford Winery that he’d designed in the late 1990s and finished building in 2001, and he describe...
The loss of Sanford Winery, in the words of daughter Blakeney, was “severely devastating” for the family. “We chose to leave,” said Thekla, “but we left with nothing, including our name.” Plus, adding salt to the wound, Sanford Winery’s tasting room remained on the family’s home ranch for a year-and-a-half, and the family saw it daily. “It was real...
Richard Sanford and Alma Rosa are participating in the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Festival on Saturday, April 21, 1-4 p.m., at The Carranza in Los Olivos (see sbcountywines.com), while hosting a “Day in the Country” at their tasting room (7250 Santa Rosa Rd., outside of Buellton) on both weekend days. Sanford will be honored on Friday, April 27...
Dec 17, 2018 · For nearly five decades Richard Sanford has championed the cause of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and other varietals grown in the cool climate of the Sta. Rita Hills. He did it before the appellation even had a name.
Mar 22, 2018 · He and Thekla live in a beautiful home in an organic vineyard with a breathtakingly scenic area. In 2014, the Sanfords sold Alma Rosa to investor Robert Zorich, leaving them debt-free while allowing Richard to focus on the part of the business he cares about—grape-growing and winemaking.
Jun 17, 2015 · Richard Sanford, who began making wine in the 1970s, was one of the first to establish Santa Barbara as a wine region.
Sanford and Son stars Redd Foxx as Fred G. Sanford, a widower and junk dealer living at 9114 South Central Avenue in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and Demond Wilson as his son Lamont Sanford.
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Sep 15, 2020 · Richard Sanford helped pioneer the Sta. Rita AVA. Sanford and his wife, Thekla (whom he calls his “rock”), founded Alma Rosa in 2005. But the story actually took root nearly 50 years ago, in 1971.
