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 if you made wine instead of beer then you could hang out in vineyards, I switched. When I realized you could make wine as a career, I went all in.

I've been the winemaker at Seavey Vineyard in California's Napa Valley since 2011. Prior jobs include Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and Robert Mondavi Winery. The podcast has given me opportunities to explore further through California making wines for Terratorium Wines and the J.M.Duane portfolio with Naked Wines.

Before coming to California I 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.

Thanks for listening to the podcast and checking out my projects.

Jim

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