Hello!
My name is Sébastien Pochan.

 

I am originally from the Languedoc region of Southern France and I have been making wine for 3 decades. I moved to Healdsburg in 1995, worked at a few different wineries both in Napa and Sonoma counties. I was the winemaker at Unti Vineyards in Dry Creek Valley for 14 years and decided in 2015 to start my own wine consulting business.  During the slower winter and spring months, I am mostly in my woodshop, growing my skills as a sculptor, wood turner and furniture maker. You can see my work here.

This little project started mainly because my friends Sam and Scott Bilbro (of Idlewild and Marietta fame) had a bit of Montepulciano they were willing to part with, a grape variety dear to me since my time at Unti where we grew a few acres. This could have simply turned into a harmless home winemaking experiment shared only with friends but I thought: Let's get legit and spend a couple grand on a proper license darn it!

So here I am, dipping my little toe into the cold waters of label ownership and wine sales. This is not a get rich quick scheme or a slow one for that matter, simply a way to share the fruits of that winemaking habit of mine which allows me to discover little vineyard gems and somehow build a bridge between my origins and this beautiful corner of the world I get to live in.