In 1986, Squire and Suzy Fridell packed up their three year old daughter and all their worldly goods to trade the freeways and the sand of Southern California for the fertile soil of Sonoma Valley. They purchased twenty six acres of gentle rolling hills covered with oaks, poison oak and madrones, cut a few trees, put in a road, got poison oak, dug a well and brought in power, got more poison oak, built their cottage, hand-planted two acres of grapevines, and got a lot of poison oak. After a year of itching and cottage living, they got rid of most of the poison oak, built their home, started building their winery, planted a second vineyard and created a new life for themselves. They don't miss the Southern California freeway system. Or the poison oak. At all.

Suzy - Squire - Roberto -
Lexy - Puck