Maya Dalla Valle - Dalla Valle Vineyards

This episode features Maya Dalla Valle, who has taken over the viticulture and winemaking helm at her family’s estate in Napa and developed a new joint venture between Dalla Valle and the Supertuscan estate, Ornellaia. Our conversation ranges from Maya’s background, her parents’ development of Dalla Valle in the 80’s, the practicalities of biodynamic farming, cultivation of indigenous yeast, and the story behind DVO, the new wine collaboration with her mentor from Ornellaia in Ital’s Bolgheri coast.

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