Steve Matthiasson is the owner/farmer/winemaker of Matthiasson Wines, founded in 2003. He
makes a number of different restrained and classically balanced wines from both common and
uncommon varieties. He has been named Winemaker of the Year by both Food and Wine
Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, and been nominated six times for the James Beard
Award. Steve is a co-author of the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing. He has provided
consulting since 1995 to many vineyards including Araujo, Dalla Valle, Spottswoode, David
Arthur, Chappellet, Two Wolves, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, and others. Along with his wife Jill,
Steve farms his own family vineyards and tree fruit orchards in the Napa Valley.
Steve received his BA from Whittier College in 1991 and his MS from UC Davis in 1996. He is a
licensed Pest Control Advisor, and has been a member of the review committee for the American
Vineyard Foundation, a Director of the Napa County Farm Bureau, a Board Member of the
Applied Ecologists Foundation, the past President of the Association of Applied Integrated Pest
Management Ecologists, and past Chair of the Viticulture Committee for the California Enological
Research Association. He is the Co-Chair of the 280 Project, a pathway for BIPOC people into
the wine business.
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