It’s rewarding to be working on something that has roots that go beyond my life. Our business was started by my parents, but before my parents there was Jacob Schram, and then the Pringles.

1974 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.

There are a number of factors: the diversity of Napa Valley’s soils, to the hillside from the valley floor; you have a diverse array of knowledge and enthusiasm that is global in this relatively small area; and, it is a unique population and a unique place.

Picking weeds on the Schramsberg property in the ’70s and then moving bottles from their stacks to the riddling area. I broke some bottles, I wouldn’t say a lot, but it does happen.

My parents, Jacob Schram and Robert Louis Stevenson. All of them are not here and that would be pretty cool.

Fifty - I was born the year my parents founded the Schramsberg property.

I know when I was a kid I used to tell my parents I was going to open a Mexican breakfast restaurant on the Mendocino coast. That was something that I said when I was 15 and 20.

I went to school at Bowdoin College in Maine and studied U.S. History and minored in Spanish.

The challenges of each growing season can make it harder for us to achieve our goals. But I believe we have the technology and know-how to make a great wine each and every year, despite the seasonality of grape growing.

Dawnine Dyer was helpful in getting me to France and to have an opportunity to work in Champagne in 1995 at Moet. I think she is very thoughtful, engaging, curious, focused and a hard-working person.

How old are you when you ask this question? Are you 15? Go to UC Davis, get into winemaking and explore the world. Travel to France and Austrailia and Argentina and explore vintages and gain a sense of wine culture. It’s not just a Napa Valley thing, it’s a global thing!