The amazing journey of the grapes to the bottle, then out into the world with a living, evolving beverage that compliments food and brings people together.

I grew up with a traditional Italian attitude about wine with lots of exposure as a kid growing up. I started working in the Napa Valley while attending UC Davis for a Viticulture and Enology degree that I attained in 1983.

I’m a fifth generation Californian with family that farmed raisin grapes south of Fresno in the late 1800s. I was able to work a season there after my time at UC Davis but, unfortunately for the family, my calling was elsewhere – the Napa Valley.

We have been farming sustainably and now organically for decades and the interface between vineyard and oak forest make our location incredibly vibrant with plant and animal life. Our focus has always been based on preserving our surroundings and minimizing inputs for long-term health of the land.

Come with passion and never stop learning.

Wallace Stegner, Barry Lopez, Kate Wolf.

Writer, cartographer, photographer, environmental scientist, meteorologist, backcountry guide – most of which I still get to do.

30 years plus six years in Sonoma and stints in Burgundy and Oregon.

With a growing season of 200+ days, a lot of challenges come every year. As well as the stiff competition in the marketplace that makes a winemaker’s life more challenging than most people realize.