Joe Cotta grew up on his father’s 600 acre vineyard near Lodi, CA. He received his BS from the California State University Fresno in 2001 and his MS from the University of California Davis in 2003. He worked as a viticulturist and grower relations representative in the North Coast of California for Allied Domecq Wines USA, before spending five years directing a vineyard and consulting business in St. Louis, MO. He joined Ste. Michelle Wine Estates in 2009 and continues to serve as the vineyard manager for Cold Creek Vineyard.

While Allison Moore was attending CSU Chico, an internship opportunity with Sierra Nevada Brewery’s Research and Development lab presented the realization that she could apply her B.S. in Biochemistry to making beer or wine. Always more of a wine than beer drinker anyway, after a short tenure she left the brewery for E. & J. Gallo in Sonoma, where she worked several harvests. Allison joined Trinchero Family Estates in 2014 and made the Central Valley her home. She supervised a large team of technicians in the analytical lab before joining the winemaking team as Enologist in 2018.