Sandor & Sabrina Faludi of Prohibition Cellars
Sandor Faludi grew up in Southern Hungary where his grandfather owned a vineyard and made wine. He often helped out in the vineyard, and eventually studied enology and viticulture in Hungary’s Villány wine region. His wife Sabrina is from the US, and is first generation Hungarian-American. After spending her childhood summers in Hungary, Sabrina decided at the age of 18 to attend university there. It was during her freshman year that she met Sandor, and they have been together ever since. In 2010 they moved to CA where Sandor worked in the wine industry, but also made wine in their garage. They dreamed of owning their own winery some day with the name of Prohibition Cellars. A 2016 road trip took them to Washington state where they fell in love with the wine and the people. That same year they moved to Woodinville, and before long licensed their two-car garage as Prohibition Cellars.
Today Prohibition Cellars has a spacious tasting room in Woodinville’s Warehouse District, complete with a stage in the barrel room for Sandor’s band and other live music events. The couple produces a wide range of wines, including some unique single-varietal wines and blends. For example, Sandor will be releasing soon his dry Furmint wine from Red Willow Vineyard. Furmint is one of the three grape varieties found in Hungary’s most famous sweet wine, Tokaji. The Prohibition Cellars beautifully dry and crisp Rosé has to be one of a kind given its blend of Pinot Noir, Lemberger and Cabernet Franc. The website states Prohibition Cellars offers “Old World Wines and Experience,” but it also offers history lessons and fascinating stories, as you will see in this interview.
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