Winemaker Julien Fayard shares our outlook. Growing up in a French winery family, he trained in classical Old-World winemaking in Bordeaux before striking out for the new world of Napa Valley terroir. Julien works closely with us and our vineyard management team to craft our wine with a minimalist’s grace. Instead of forcing the wine with aggressive intervention, he prefers to coax it along and let the site speak for itself.