Ben Cane

Ben Cane
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Winemaker

Ben Cane is an Australian winemaker working in California. He is best known for his work with Twomey Cellars and Daniel Baron, and is an expert in Pinot noir production. Twomey Cellars is owned and operated by the Duncan Family of Silver Oak Cellars. In October 2013 he left Twomey and began working for Westwood Wines of Sonoma County in July 2014.

Cane earned a B.S. in Organic Chemistry and Psychology at the University of Adelaide, and later received his post-graduate diploma in oenology in 1998. His love for Pinot noir began while working at Arcadian in Santa Barbara. While studying in university, he worked in several wine-industry jobs, including working in a vineyard and cellar and managing a bottle shop. He initially worked for Simon Gilbert Wine Services in the Hunter Region, and then became assistant winemaker for Arcadian Wines in Santa Barbara County. After working at Acadian, he travelled through South America, Africa, Asia and Europe, and returned to Australia where he became a vineyard manager in the Barossa Valley. Over the next five years he held numerous jobs, working at Languedoc, New South Wales, at Domaine Dujac in Morey-St.-Denis, France, De Bortoli Wines in the Yarra Valley, Poderi Colla in Piedmont, Italy, and Yalumba Wines in the Barossa Valley. These experiences gave him an insight into wine production in France and Italy.

Cane returned to America in 2006, and became a contract winemaker at Freestone Vineyards. In 2007, the Duncan Family of Twomey Cellars, a sister winery of Silver Oak Cellars, hired Cane as an assistant winemaker to Daniel Baron to produce Pinor noir for the company. The following year, he began oversight of Sauvignon Blanc production. Cane initially began producing wine from Twomey's Russian River Valley WestPin Vineyard, but has since been important for Twomey in expanding its vineyard program to include wines from the Anderson Valley and Sonoma Coast Appellations and the famed Bien Nacido Vineyard in Santa Maria Valley. His vision for Twomey has been cited as "to craft a wine that expresses the uniqueness and terroir of each vineyard site with finesse and balance by blending old world techniques with new world innovation and technology." As of 2013 he has produced four Pinot noir vintages for Twomey.

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