In a park in Jerez, Spain, there’s a statue of Shakespeare —  a token of appreciation for the Bard who, 400 years ago, was extolling the pleasures and benefits of the region’s most famous product, Sherry.

I fell in love last summer.

“Wine is geography in a bottle,” Jancis Robinson observed as she presided over a tasting that established her point.

Trester Goetting has been named associate winemaker at Ladera Vineyards. A long-time Napa Valley resident, he has worked at Tulocay Winery, Domaine Carneros, Yorkville Cellars and St. Clement Vineyards, and joined Ladera in 2004 as assistant winemaker.

It was a frequently used wine cliché a few years back — the one that went, “We listen to our grapes.”