DeLoach Vineyards

Katie Carter joined DeLoach in 2006 as enologist after a harvest at Mulderbosch Vineyards in South Africa and stints at Tandem Winery and Greg & Greg Custom Crush in Sebastopol. She was promoted through assistant winemaker to winemaker, and now leads the day-to-day cellar program. She works closely with Brian Maloney, who joined DeLoach for the 2003 harvest (the year Boisset acquired the property) and has since risen to VP of Winemaking, also playing a central role in the 2011 revival of sister winery Buena Vista. Maloney grew up on his family's Petaluma Gap ranch, earned his viticulture and enology degree at UC Davis, and was instrumental in elevating DeLoach's Pinot Noir program and establishing the winery's biodynamic estate vineyard. The DeLoach approach is intentionally Burgundian: open-top wood fermentors, native yeasts, hand punch-downs (pigeage), gentle destemming, and aging in French oak, applied to a 17-acre Olivet Bench estate certified biodynamic and organic. Vineyard-designate bottlings come from Maboroshi, Pennacchio, Stubbs, and other premium Russian River, Marin, and Mendocino sites.

Jean-Charles Boisset is the proprietor of DeLoach Vineyards, which his family’s Boisset Collection acquired in 2003. Raised in Burgundy, where his parents founded their winery in 1961, Jean-Charles brought a Burgundian sensibility and a deep commitment to organic and biodynamic farming, converting DeLoach’s Russian River estate vineyard soon after the purchase. The winery was founded by Cecil and Christine DeLoach, Russian River Valley pioneers who made their first vintage in 1975 and helped lead the movement that won the appellation its AVA in 1983. Under Boisset, DeLoach continues that legacy of terroir-driven, site-specific wines.