Seagrape Wine Company

Back in the early and crazy hey-day of the personal computer explosion, Karen Steinwachs and Dave Robinson (wife and husband) would escape the world of PCs, CPUs, and LA traffic for trips to Santa Barbara wine country and Pinot, Chardonnay, and bucolic country roads.

As with any industry, the tech world changed and both went off to the allure of start-ups and the seduction of possible stock options and IPOs (neither, unfortunately, happened!) In 2001, Karen had “dropped out” for just a few months and was working as the lowest of the low in a winery, a cellar rat shovelling stems, cleaning out fermenters, hefting barrels… In 2007, her seventh vintage in the wine business, Karen became the winemaker at Buttonwood Farm Winery where the altruistic folks there (Bret, Seyburn, Barry, and the rest of the cru) give them the freedom to make Seagrape Wine Company wines.