Renegade Winery

RENEGADE Winery started as a dream of ours back in 2004, when Mark and I met the owners of a small winery in Amador County, and became good friends with them. We became very interested in the wine industry.

As we started to learn about it, read about it, talk about it, try our hands at it, we found that it was consuming more and more of our conversation. We were both excited about learning more. Soon we were coming by and pouring wine at our friends’ winery in our spare time, for the fun of it.

Mark’s background was in construction. In 2006 when the economy collapsed, so did construction. He found himself with a lot of time on his hands. Not one to sit idle, he asked our winery friends if he could trade some of his labor for their knowledge of wine making. They agreed.