Clay Mauritson with Mauritson Wines

Join Freda, The Wine Wench, as she interviews head winemaker, Clay Mauritson, from family owned and operated Mauritson Wines. Known for their Zinfandels, Mauritson is a winery, like many other of the family owned winery’s, that prides itself on preserving terroir and refraining from manipulating the grapes for the sake of a rating. All but 35 years-old, Clay has been working with wine since he was in diapers. His family has been growing grapes for over 140 years and owns some of the best vineyards in Sonoma Valley. Listen to Clay tell his story about how he got into winemaking, his vision to take his family vineyard to the next level and open a winery, what is important to him as the head winemaker and get enlightened about how corporatization within the wine industry is starting to take its toll on the growers and the winemakers.

Listen to full interview here.