I make wine at Seavey Vineyard in California's Napa Valley. I'm known as a Cab guy. Prior jobs include Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and Robert Mondavi Winery. Like I said, Cabernet. Nonetheless, my affection for wines and winemaking runs the gamut. Once I made sparkling wines in Malborough, New Zealand and Riesling in Washington.

I live in Napa with my wife and daughters. Parenting sometimes gets in the way of my podcasting.

In the early I days studied biology at Gonzaga University. The idea of more school right after that was too much, so I worked at Brancott Vineyards in New Zealand. Hauling rocks in the vineyard helped ready me for grad school at UCDavis. I moved to Napa in 2004 and don't plan to ever move out. Most of the podcast guests are in Napa, because I travel to record in person, and so I can see their cellars and equipment.

Growing up in Utah it was exceedingly hard to get beer in high school. So I made beer in a fuel can under the stairs. When I figured out that you could make wine, I switched. When I realized you could make wine as a career, I jumped.

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