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PEACE, LOVE & ZINFANDEL SINCE 1977
Actually, maybe we need to go further back – to the 1960’s – where all things in the Green & Red story really began. In 1967, founder Jay Heminway was living in Berkeley, teaching sculpture at U.C. Berkeley, and right in the eye of the 1960s storm — dead center in the summer of love, of the free speech movement, of anti war protests, psychedelia, and a reawakening of so many to the beautiful and complex world around them.
There were so many things wafting through that fine California air, but one part of this Berkeley movement was a renewed appreciation, among a tight knit group of friends, for local, authentic, foods and wine. Bob Wax, Patty Curtan, John Lilly, Alice Waters, and Jay Heminway were a part of this merry group of friends.
Provençal cuisine, with its emphasis on using the freshest local vegetables, herbs and ingredients, found its loadstar at Chez Panisse, later opened by Alice. Some of this band helped found Berkeley’s Cheese Board, and others went in different directions.
While some went “up the country,” to find their path, founder Jay Heminway headed here, to Napa Valley. Cruising up the Silverado Trail, towards Rutherford —where Beaulieu and Inglenook were crafting world class wines — Jay took a right turn on Route 128, drove past Lake Hennessy, and up into the hills of Chiles Valley.
What Heminway found there was nirvana — although it was a little hard to see it at first. When Jay purchased the hardscrabble property, in 1969, it included a cold-water hunting cabin, a burned-down barn, and an abandoned Fleetwood Cadillac.
On one of his rambles, Jay stumbled upon the remains of century-old vines from the old Rancho Catacula. Soon Jay was planting gorgeous Zinfandel and other varietals at his Vineyard, now named Green & Red after the local red chert based soils and oceanic green serpentine veins running through the property.
3208 Chiles Pope Valley Rd
Saint Helena
CA
94574
United States
707.965.2346