Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine
by Steven Kent Mirassou
Hardcover – June 2021
Steven Kent Mirassou received his BA in American Literature from the George Washington University and his MA in Literature from NYU. He was born in the Salinas Valley and grew up in San Jose and Los Gatos before going east to college. Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine is his first book.
Mirassou started his wine career in sales but found his true passion after moving into the production side of the business in 1996. Steven has made the highest rated wines from the Livermore Valley, is a founder of the Mount Diablo Highlands Wine Quality Alliance, and the President of the Livermore Valley Wine Growers Association.
Steven has four adult children, April Coffey, Aidan Mirassou, Katherine Mirassou, and Sara Mirassou. He lives in Livermore, CA with his wife, Beth Murray Mirassou, and their two dogs
Chapter 1: The Deep and Simple Immensity It is wondrously lonely out now. And it’s cold in the night. Cold compared to the bed I came out of, untangling from the warm body of my woman, a half-hour before. There is not another soul anywhere around, and it is so
When I was 17 I ran with the bulls in Pamplona. That was the plan at least. The real story is that I got so drunk drinking Calimocho the night before that I threw up on myself and passed out in a field outside the bar where I self-poisoned. I
