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
In a new post on Wine Saves Lives!, Steven Kent Mirassou and Beth Murray of The Steven Kent Winery talk about the new release of The Premier, Steven Kent’s best Cabernet. This vintage, due to the smoke-taint that affected nearly all of the 2020 Livermore harvest, The Premier was made
Yesterday, Em and I had the opportunity to evaluate a dosage trial done on our new méthode champenoise Pinot Noir from the Santa Cruz Mountains. A dosage trial consists of adding different levels of sugar dissolved in wine in order to create a balance between acidity, mouthfeel, and sweetness. Using sample bottles, we
New post on Wine Saves Lives! about a quick trip to visit family, share wine, and acquire peace!
I’m an emotional person, and the best of my wines are infused with the barely-contained love I feel every time I’m in the cellar. Today – rainy, gray, cold. Haven’t been in the cellar for a number of weeks. Today, got back in. Felt like Ulysses finally seeing Penelope again.
Check out the video above for a peek behind the cellar door! Steven Kent Mirassou and Beth Murray of The Steven Kent Winery talk about the auspicious start to 2023 and the long day of bottling 8 wines and 1250 over 15 hours…wines and hours that yielded some of the
In the midst of making nine blends this week for a mobile bottling run tomorrow, we took a few hours out to make 624 case boxes for our L’Autre Côte Livermore Valley Cabernet Franc. The glass bottles come in plain white boxes (called “contents” boxes) that get dumped one at
New post on Wine Saves Lives! in which Steven Kent Mirassou, Aidan Mirassou, and Beth Refsnider – The Steven Kent Winery’s wine-making team – talk about what makes Cabernet Franc such a special grape, why they love these wines so much, and what makes their vineyards in the Livermore
In a new podcast episode, the author talks about his relationship to nature as he tries each year to make something of Beauty and emotional connectiveness and how crazy the 2022 vintage was from the standpoint of extreme heat and weirdly-timed rain.
A new post on Wine Saves Lives! about the importance of Cabernet Franc to the future of The Steven Kent Winery.
Newest post on Wine Saves Lives! Press days can be long, requiring a number of steps to get wine from the fermenter, decanted off of the skins, and the skins into the press. But it is also one of the most fulfilling days of the wine season. As my love
