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 Pleasanton, CA with his fiancée, Nancy Castro, and their three dogs.
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.
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
New post on Wine Saves Lives! detailing how we press off wines. The Steven Kent Winery has been and is devoted to the Livermore Valley, one of California’s first great wine regions. Livermore is our home, the hospitality scene is burgeoning, great restaurants and improving wines are helping the Valley
New post on Wine Saves Lives! Podcast Ep. 14 in which I talk about the wacky weather in wine country in the last week or so and how you can’t really know how bad (or good) things are unless you are spending time among the vines.
I’m in the winery early on this rainy September morning – a rarity for California, and one of those small challenges we face as farmers and winemakers as it can set back harvest schedules as vineyards (hopefully) dry out, and fruit (hopefully!!) doesn’t plump up too much – doing punchdowns
New post on Wine Saves Lives! discusses the magical conversion of water (juice) into wine!
Click on the link to see the latest video from Wine Saves Lives! about sampling for Barbera Rosé. I took a walk this beautiful morning through our Barbera block to gauge how far along the fruit was. We use Barbera, a high-acid grape native to Piemonte in northwestern Italy, to
A new video on Wine Saves Lives! chronicling the start of Harvest 2022. The first day of 2022 Harvest saw the winemaking team at The Steven Kent Winery traveling to Lodi to pick up Albariño and overseeing the delivery of Sauvignon Blanc from the Lencioni Vineyard on the western edge of Livermore.
Latest post on Wine Saves Lives! celebrating all things Cab Franc!
