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Brion Wise grew up on an apple farm in the Pacific Northwest. His dad loved making wine and recruited Brion to make hard cider out of the apples left in the field at the end of harvest, and to help him make a few of his own barrels each year. Northwest winters were cold, so there was a lot of card playing, and a lot of wine and whiskey drinking to keep the winter blues away. It was during these long, cold days that he learned the importance of life’s simple pleasures like friends and a good drink. Years later Brion became a wildly successful chemical engineer for the petroleum industry, which afforded him the chance to travel the world over.

At the end of a long career, Brion purchased an extraordinary piece of land in California wine country above Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon. He and his wife Ronda set to work building their dream from the ground up. Drawing on three generations of farming, and with the help of awesome partners like John Caldwell, he planned the vineyard, built the winery and a beautiful home, and launched B Wise Vineyard. Today Brion and Ronda own and manage other incredible vineyards in their wine portfolio including Sleeping Lady and a new project atop Pritchard Hill in Napa.