A Little Break
2023-03-23
New post on Wine Saves Lives! about a quick trip to visit family, share wine, and acquire peace!
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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.
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Coming Home
2023-03-09
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.
Oregon Wine Country & Saying Goodbye to a Mentor and Friend
2023-03-08
New post on Wine Saves Lives! about a visit to Oregon wine country and the opportunity to say goodbye to an old mentor and friend.
Is the 100-point Score Bullshit?
2023-03-02
A new post on Wine Saves Lives about the validity and importance of 100-point wine scores.
Sin City & Cab Franc
2023-02-11
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
Blending Season – Part 2
2023-02-03
A new post on Wine Saves Lives! wherein the author describes the challenges and the complications of blending wines before bottling.
Old Wine Educates the Winemaker
2023-01-19
When I was young and didn’t know anything, young and tannic and fruit-forward wines seemed like the cat’s pajamas. What could be more delicious than the obviousness of youth? Over time that same dumb winemaker, with a little more leather on his hide and many more wines across his gullet
Talking Cabernet Franc
2022-12-07
Here is video of the winemaking team at Steven Kent talking about Cabernet Franc, its inherent beauty and mystery, favored vineyards in the Livermore Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains and why those sites are so magical.
Wine Saves Lives! Pod Ep. 16 – the 22 Vintage Put Away
2022-11-19
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.
Cab Franc AF
2022-11-08
A new post on Wine Saves Lives! about the importance of Cabernet Franc to the future of The Steven Kent Winery.