One of America's most famous sommeliers, Larry Stone MS, has left his post as general manager at Francis Ford Coppola's Rubicon Estate in Napa Valley and taken a similar job at Evening Land, the Pinot Noir/Chardonnay specialist with bases in Oregon, California and Burgundy.
Stone, sommelier extraordinaire and mentor to dozens of now-successful wine stewards during his years as wine director at now-shuttered Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco, was lured from that job in 2005 by one of Rubicon restaurant's partners, movie director/producer Coppola. Stone has now rolled to Evening Land, which was created by another movie producer, Mark...