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
New post on Wines Saves Lives! exploring the idea that one can devote a lifetime to studying something (in my case, Cabernet Franc) and realize (happily) that one knows only the smallest bit about it. Art rewards passion and openmindedness…each time one shoves her nose into a great book
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
A new post on Wine Saves Lives! about the importance of Cabernet Franc to the future of The Steven Kent Winery.
Here is a behind-the-scenes conversation with the winemaking team of The Steven Kent Winery as they talk about two world-class Cabernet Francs. If you want more content like this think about subscribing to my substack.
A friend of mine, Brandon Wood, just opened up a new and magical cheese shop in downtown Livermore. As our wine region becomes more mature and begins showing off its world-class bona fides, it needs more artisanal places like The Cheese Parlor. Brandon and I talk cheese and wine in
Aging away gracefully is a puncheon of 2021 Cabernet Franc from the Ghielmetti Vineyard destined for Lineage or L’Autre Côte. The 2021 vintage is stunning, perhaps the finest we have yet made though the newly released 2018 is now available and setting the current standard of excellence for Livermore Valley
The Lineage Wine Collection’s winemaking team talk about great Cabernet Francs from Leah Jørgensen Cellars in Oregon and the Steven Kent Winery in the Livermore Valley.
I explore the history of Cabernet Franc in the Old World and in the New; expand upon recent thoughts of why the Livermore Valley ought to set itself up as the home of the variety in California, and what makes Cab Franc so hedonistically perfect! Check out the White Paper.
