Exploring Columbia Wine Industry Network WIN Jon Bonné: Massican Winery, St. Helena, CA
Dan Petroski, AB CC’95, MBA NYU
Founder and owner of Massican, head winemaker at Larkmead Vineyards
Host: Jon Bonné, CC’94, Managing Editor of RESY
This event is part of our CAA-All-Access program
September 3, 2020
Arriving in 2007 in the Napa Valley known for its red wines, Dan Petroski missed the whites he had savored in Italy, a wine “you’d want to drink on a hot day in an outdoor café”, a wine his mother could afford. In the true Columbian spirit, Petroski never stopped thinking and daring to connect tradition and class, with creativity and vogue. So he founded Massican Winery in 2010 and committed to its exclusive production of elegant but affordable white wines from a number of varieties not often seen in Napa. It is an intriguing twist to his professed populism that Petroski has also managed to elevate one of Napa Valley’s oldest and most storied estates, the 1895-founded Larkmead to an unprecedented tier of luxury and splendor as its head winemaker.
At the second stop of our CAA-WIN series, the great Jon Bonné arrives at St. Helena in Napa Valley to connect with fellow Columbian Dan Petroski of Massican on its 10th anniversary, to discuss wine and life, and to cheer him before the harvest reminiscent of the pep-rallies Dan used to when he played for Columbia football team, a quarter of a century earlier.