ROTARY LUNCHEON: Susan Tipton, Bucking the Trend with White French Rhône Wines in Lodi

Susan Tipton, award-winning woman winemaker, talks about changing the trend in the Lodi wine industry with the introduction of white French Rhône wines. She will also share her experience as a woman in the wine business.

Susan Tipton is the owner and founding winemaker of Acquiesce Winery & Vineyards in Acampo, California. Acquiesce is Lodi’s only all white wine winery with nine unique, estate-grown Rhône varietals on an 18-acre property featuring a tasting room in a refurbished 120-year-old barn surrounded by wine grapes.

Inspired after trying her first white Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines, Susan began planting her white estate grapes in 2008. The combination of Lodi’s fertile soils and these select white Rhône grapes which are hand-picked, whole cluster pressed, and fermented in stainless steel have created quite a buzz; her wines have garnered numerous Double Gold, Gold, and Best of Class awards and Best Viognier in California. Susan was awarded Best Woman Winemaker in the 2022 International Women’s Wine Competition; she won Best White Wine in the 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition along with four Best of Class awards. In 2023, Acquiesce Winery won Visit Lodi’s Winery of the Year.

Susan has served as a board member for the Rhône Rangers, on the Lodi Winegrape Marketing Committee, as board member for the California Wine Education Foundation, as a founding board member for the Lodi Association of Wineries, and as Founding Chair of Slow Food Lodi. Susan lives with her husband Rodney in their vineyard home.

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