Roam

Greetings from Napa Valley. After many years in the making we are so pleased to offer you the Inaugural Release of ROAM. Our wine brand identity uses my middle name, and also speaks to the commitment to never stop exploring the Napa Valley in my quest to create pure single-vineyard wines.

     Our 2015 ROAM Sleeping Lady Cabernet Sauvignon represents the culmination of finding an ideal single vineyard to debut and to share with friends...

The Sleeping Lady Vineyard, located near the village of Yountville, on the gentle up-slope of the western Mayacamas foothills, is simply magical. We are grateful to have approximately a 2-acre holding within Sleeping Lady.  After intimately studying the flavor variations between each of our contiguous vine row blocks, we have blended our best barrels to share with you now. 

As a protégé of the Paulliac-born winemaker, the late Denis Malbec, I wanted to create a single wine of sheer beauty, complexity, and ageability in line with great Napa Valley wines and Bordeaux First-Growth wines that my mentor had crafted during his career. Just as importantly, I wanted to make a debut wine that reminded me of some of the iconic early 1900's classic Napa Valley bottlings I had tasted growing up here. It is with immense grati...