Chad’s been striking insane deals in California for twenty years now, and the key to his incredible success has been connections and keeping his mouth shut about leveraging those decades-old relationships. There’s an unspoken understanding in the wine industry that grapes are always available if you know where to look but winery’s don’t like advertising that they have fruit to sell. But if you work your ass off like Chad does, and your boots are always on the ground, good things have a way of finding you.
As he explained to me, he wasn’t even looking to making a Sauvignon Blanc. It’s tricky because there are less than a dozen vineyards Chad said he would even seek out throughout California to find crisp, exciting, interesting Sauvignon Blanc. But when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came up in Oakville of all places – one of Napa’s most prestigious appellations — he realized he simply couldn’t say no.





