- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Showing posts with label ROAR WINES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ROAR WINES. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2026
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
Monday, March 2, 2026
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, December 29, 2025
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, September 29, 2025
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, April 28, 2025
Roar Wines, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery
GUEST LINE-UP:
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
- Emma Swain – CEO, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery - Wines For Mothers Day
Monday, December 30, 2024
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, November 11, 2024
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, February 26, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
REPLAY: Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, March 20, 2023
Roar Wines, Riboli Family Wines, Stella Rosa Brandy, The Ice House Pasadena
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
- Daniela Garrido - Director Of Communications At Riboli Family Wines, Stella Rosa Brandy
- Johnny Buss - Owner Of The Ice House Pasadena & Co-Owner Of The Los Angeles Lakers
Monday, February 6, 2023
Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, January 2, 2023
Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, May 30, 2022
Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, May 10, 2021
Buoncristiani Family Winery, Roar Wines
- Jay Buoncristiani - Co-Founder & Director Of Winemaking, Buoncristiani Family Winery & JTB Wine
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
Monday, January 6, 2020
Roar Wines, Cline Cellars, Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance
- Gary Franscioni - Proprietor, Roar Wines
- Tom Gendall - Winemaker At Cline Cellars & Board Member, Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance
Monday, August 20, 2018
Monday, July 10, 2017
07/10 GARY FRANSCIONI, ROAR WINES, T.J. DE JONY, PIEDRA CREEK WINERY
GARY FRANSCIONI - PROPRIETOR, ROAR WINES
ROAR Wines is the realization of our family’s more than 100-year love affair with the Santa Lucia Highlands. It’s a relationship rooted in four generations of farming and nurtured today in a small portfolio of premium Pinot Noir, Syrah, Chardonnay and Viognier.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, we planted our first vineyard in 1996 and named it for Rosella. In 1997 we planted the Garys’ Vineyard in partnership with our good friends and fellow grape growers, the Pisoni family. Since then we’ve planted two more vineyards; our “high-altitude” Sierra Mar Vineyard located at 1000ft above the valley floor and the Soberanes Vineyard, a second partnership with the Pisoni family, located on one of the area’s oldest land grants.
In 2001, after years spent developing the pedigree of our vineyards with top-tier wineries, we launched ROAR Wines to showcase the signature flavors of our vineyards and Santa Lucia Highlands in a small portfolio of single vineyard and appellated bottlings. The name ROAR is inspired by our family’s passion for work and play; paying homage to the Monterey Bay winds that roar through our vineyards and the thunderous roar of a stadium full of sports fans.
We hope you enjoy our wines, and look forward to raising a glass together with you soon.
Gary, Rosella, Adam & Nick Franscioni
ABOUT GARY FRANSCIONI
Gary Franscioni is a third generation Santa Lucia Highlands farmer. His grandfather, Silvio Franscioni Sr, immigrated to the area from Switzerland in 1886, and started a dairy. Years later, Gary’s father, Joe Franscioni, shifted the farming focus to row crops including beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Gary grew up in the family business, and developed a deep respect for the land and what it could produce when nurtured properly. Upon graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in agri-business, he took over management of the family’s farming business, which owned and managed more than 200 acres of row crops in the Salinas Valley.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, Gary turned his focus to viticulture. He planted Rosella’s Vineyard in 1996 and partnered with Gary Pisoni in the Garys’ Vineyard a year later. In 2001, after developing his reputation as a grower with Rosella’s and Garys’ Vineyard, Gary and his wife Rosella launched ROAR Wines.
Today Gary is the driving force behind ROAR, overseeing all vineyard and winery operations.
WWW.ROARWINES.COM
T.J. DE JONY - PIEDRA CREEK WINERY
Piedra Creek Winery was conceived atop a small knoll in the heart of the MacGregor Vineyard overlooking the beautiful Edna Valley of San Luis Obispo, California.
In 1984 Piedra Creek Winery became the smallest bonded winery in the Edna Valley, if not the state of California, originally producing only a couple hundred cases of estate sourced Chardonnay.
The ultra small batch wines quickly gained notoriety. The grapes used would not come from a selected vineyard, nor from blocks within vineyards, but rather from only the best plants of the 55 acre Chardonnay vineyard. The result: only the best fruit would be used to make the finest wines possible.
In 1999, San Floriano vineyard was planted and Piedra Creek Winery moved. The unique and meticulous practice of hand selecting only the highest quality fruit played a fundamental role in the formation of San Floriano vineyard.
Today, Piedra Creek Winery Estate wines are sourced exclusively from the San Floriano vineyard, which was planted with the fixe of producing highest quality fruit. Compact spacing and short rows, are all planted within walking distance of the winemaker’s house. This allows for the utmost attention to detail, resulting in the highest quality of farming, cultivation, grape growing and wine making practices, building on the heritage of Piedra Creek.
PIEDRACREEK.COM
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, we planted our first vineyard in 1996 and named it for Rosella. In 1997 we planted the Garys’ Vineyard in partnership with our good friends and fellow grape growers, the Pisoni family. Since then we’ve planted two more vineyards; our “high-altitude” Sierra Mar Vineyard located at 1000ft above the valley floor and the Soberanes Vineyard, a second partnership with the Pisoni family, located on one of the area’s oldest land grants.
In 2001, after years spent developing the pedigree of our vineyards with top-tier wineries, we launched ROAR Wines to showcase the signature flavors of our vineyards and Santa Lucia Highlands in a small portfolio of single vineyard and appellated bottlings. The name ROAR is inspired by our family’s passion for work and play; paying homage to the Monterey Bay winds that roar through our vineyards and the thunderous roar of a stadium full of sports fans.
We hope you enjoy our wines, and look forward to raising a glass together with you soon.
Gary, Rosella, Adam & Nick Franscioni
ABOUT GARY FRANSCIONI
Gary Franscioni is a third generation Santa Lucia Highlands farmer. His grandfather, Silvio Franscioni Sr, immigrated to the area from Switzerland in 1886, and started a dairy. Years later, Gary’s father, Joe Franscioni, shifted the farming focus to row crops including beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Gary grew up in the family business, and developed a deep respect for the land and what it could produce when nurtured properly. Upon graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in agri-business, he took over management of the family’s farming business, which owned and managed more than 200 acres of row crops in the Salinas Valley.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, Gary turned his focus to viticulture. He planted Rosella’s Vineyard in 1996 and partnered with Gary Pisoni in the Garys’ Vineyard a year later. In 2001, after developing his reputation as a grower with Rosella’s and Garys’ Vineyard, Gary and his wife Rosella launched ROAR Wines.
Today Gary is the driving force behind ROAR, overseeing all vineyard and winery operations.
WWW.ROARWINES.COM
T.J. DE JONY - PIEDRA CREEK WINERY
In 1984 Piedra Creek Winery became the smallest bonded winery in the Edna Valley, if not the state of California, originally producing only a couple hundred cases of estate sourced Chardonnay.
The ultra small batch wines quickly gained notoriety. The grapes used would not come from a selected vineyard, nor from blocks within vineyards, but rather from only the best plants of the 55 acre Chardonnay vineyard. The result: only the best fruit would be used to make the finest wines possible.
In 1999, San Floriano vineyard was planted and Piedra Creek Winery moved. The unique and meticulous practice of hand selecting only the highest quality fruit played a fundamental role in the formation of San Floriano vineyard.
Today, Piedra Creek Winery Estate wines are sourced exclusively from the San Floriano vineyard, which was planted with the fixe of producing highest quality fruit. Compact spacing and short rows, are all planted within walking distance of the winemaker’s house. This allows for the utmost attention to detail, resulting in the highest quality of farming, cultivation, grape growing and wine making practices, building on the heritage of Piedra Creek.
PIEDRACREEK.COM
Monday, August 3, 2015
08/03 GARY FRANSCIONI, ROAR WINES, DAVID HEJL, DOMAINE DELLA
GARY FRANSCIONI – OWNER, ROAR WINES
ROAR Wines is the realization of our family’s more than 100-year love affair with the Santa Lucia Highlands. It’s a relationship rooted in three generations of farming and nurtured today in a small portfolio of premium Pinot Noir, Syrah, Chardonnay and Viognier.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, we planted our first vineyard in 1996 and named it for Rosella. In 1997 we planted the Garys’ Vineyard in partnership with our good friends and fellow grape growers, the Pisoni family. Since then we’ve planted two more vineyards; our “high-altitude” Sierra Mar Vineyard located at 1000ft above the valley floor and the Soberanes Vineyard a second partnership with the Pisoni family, located on one of the area’s oldest land grants.
In 2001, after years spent developing the pedigree of our vineyards with top-tier wineries, we launched ROAR Wines to showcase the signature flavors of our vineyards and Santa Lucia Highands in a small portfolio of single vineyard and appellated bottlings. The name ROAR is inspired by our family’s passion for work and play; paying homage to the Monterey Bay winds that roar through our vineyards and the thunderous roar of a stadium full of sports fans.
We hope you enjoy our wines, and look forward to raising a glass together with you soon.
ABOUT GARY FRANSCIONI:
Gary Franscioni is a third generation Santa Lucia Highlands farmer. His grandfather, Silvio Franscioni Sr, immigrated to the area from Switzerland in 1886, and started a dairy. Years later, Gary’s father, Joe Franscioni, shifted the farming focus to row crops including beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Gary grew up in the family business, and developed a deep respect for the land and what it could produce when nurtured properly. Upon graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in agri-business, he took over management of the family’s farming business, which owned and managed more than 200 acres of row crops in the Salinas Valley.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, Gary turned his focus to viticulture. He planted Rosella’s Vineyard in 1996 and partnered with Gary Pisoni in the Garys’ Vineyard a year later. In 2001, after developing his reputation as a grower with Rosella’s and Garys’ Vineyard, Gary and his wife Rosella launched ROAR Wines.
Today Gary is the driving force behind ROAR, overseeing all vineyard and winery operations.
WWW.ROARWINES.COM
DAVID HEJL - FOUNDER & WINEMAKER, DOMAINE DELLA
DELLA wines is my passion realized from the shared vision of fellow founders; my sister and brother-in- law, Lee and Ernie LeRoy. DELLA honors our mother who died long before her time. Della Winifred Dale was a strong woman with a relentless commitment to life, raising eleven strong, intense and complex children. She was an extraordinary woman who believed in living the life you always imagined and in pursuing one’s dreams no matter the obstacles.
My passion for fine wine began while putting myself through school working as a waiter, sommelier and chef, but I found my true inspiration while living in Paris. It was there that I first experienced the art of wine, food and culture in a way that was spiritual. Having been a student of fine wine and food my whole life, this project is a culmination of three decades of experience.
I have been hand crafting distinctive Pinot Noir since 2010. DELLA was created around my obsession and enchantment with Pinot Noir. I am so grateful to my many mentors over the years to get me to this place. My quest is to create an exceptional wine for you and your shared special moments and memories while executing against the envisioned future of a timeless brand which will endure the generations.
Our mission is to craft intense and adventurous wines by partnering with the very best growers to create an exceptional wine. Scheduled for release in 2014, these wines are extremely limited production. I invite you to experience DELLA, a true expression of the place from where it was grown, in harmony and balance from the finest vineyards of Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast.
DAVID’S BACKROUND:
David Hejl is the Founder / Winemaker of Domaine DELLA and the former General Manager and CEO of Kosta Browne Winery in Sebastopol, California. Prior to joining Kosta Browne, David accumulated over 30 years experience in growth-oriented strategy execution within the food and consumer products industry and held executive positions with Nabisco, Berkshire Hathaway, Gourmet Award Foods, Ruiz Food Products, and most recently President & CEO of CPI International. In addition, he has 15 years of private equity investment experience and currently sits on various Boards of Directors.
David received his BS in Accounting and Finance from the University of Nebraska, is a CPA, and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. David is also a noted speaker and has been on the Marketing faculty of the University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Management, Marquette University and the University of St. Thomas.
David and his two boys Andrew and Zachary have lived in Sonoma County for over fifteen years and reside in Bennett Valley. David enjoys BBQ, surfing, skiing, winemaking and wine collecting, spending time with family and friends, and learning French.
WWW.DELLAWINES.COM
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, we planted our first vineyard in 1996 and named it for Rosella. In 1997 we planted the Garys’ Vineyard in partnership with our good friends and fellow grape growers, the Pisoni family. Since then we’ve planted two more vineyards; our “high-altitude” Sierra Mar Vineyard located at 1000ft above the valley floor and the Soberanes Vineyard a second partnership with the Pisoni family, located on one of the area’s oldest land grants.
In 2001, after years spent developing the pedigree of our vineyards with top-tier wineries, we launched ROAR Wines to showcase the signature flavors of our vineyards and Santa Lucia Highands in a small portfolio of single vineyard and appellated bottlings. The name ROAR is inspired by our family’s passion for work and play; paying homage to the Monterey Bay winds that roar through our vineyards and the thunderous roar of a stadium full of sports fans.
We hope you enjoy our wines, and look forward to raising a glass together with you soon.
ABOUT GARY FRANSCIONI:
Gary Franscioni is a third generation Santa Lucia Highlands farmer. His grandfather, Silvio Franscioni Sr, immigrated to the area from Switzerland in 1886, and started a dairy. Years later, Gary’s father, Joe Franscioni, shifted the farming focus to row crops including beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Gary grew up in the family business, and developed a deep respect for the land and what it could produce when nurtured properly. Upon graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in agri-business, he took over management of the family’s farming business, which owned and managed more than 200 acres of row crops in the Salinas Valley.
Recognizing the region’s potential for premium wine grapes, Gary turned his focus to viticulture. He planted Rosella’s Vineyard in 1996 and partnered with Gary Pisoni in the Garys’ Vineyard a year later. In 2001, after developing his reputation as a grower with Rosella’s and Garys’ Vineyard, Gary and his wife Rosella launched ROAR Wines.
Today Gary is the driving force behind ROAR, overseeing all vineyard and winery operations.
WWW.ROARWINES.COM
DAVID HEJL - FOUNDER & WINEMAKER, DOMAINE DELLA
My passion for fine wine began while putting myself through school working as a waiter, sommelier and chef, but I found my true inspiration while living in Paris. It was there that I first experienced the art of wine, food and culture in a way that was spiritual. Having been a student of fine wine and food my whole life, this project is a culmination of three decades of experience.
I have been hand crafting distinctive Pinot Noir since 2010. DELLA was created around my obsession and enchantment with Pinot Noir. I am so grateful to my many mentors over the years to get me to this place. My quest is to create an exceptional wine for you and your shared special moments and memories while executing against the envisioned future of a timeless brand which will endure the generations.
Our mission is to craft intense and adventurous wines by partnering with the very best growers to create an exceptional wine. Scheduled for release in 2014, these wines are extremely limited production. I invite you to experience DELLA, a true expression of the place from where it was grown, in harmony and balance from the finest vineyards of Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast.
DAVID’S BACKROUND:
David Hejl is the Founder / Winemaker of Domaine DELLA and the former General Manager and CEO of Kosta Browne Winery in Sebastopol, California. Prior to joining Kosta Browne, David accumulated over 30 years experience in growth-oriented strategy execution within the food and consumer products industry and held executive positions with Nabisco, Berkshire Hathaway, Gourmet Award Foods, Ruiz Food Products, and most recently President & CEO of CPI International. In addition, he has 15 years of private equity investment experience and currently sits on various Boards of Directors.
David received his BS in Accounting and Finance from the University of Nebraska, is a CPA, and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. David is also a noted speaker and has been on the Marketing faculty of the University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Management, Marquette University and the University of St. Thomas.
David and his two boys Andrew and Zachary have lived in Sonoma County for over fifteen years and reside in Bennett Valley. David enjoys BBQ, surfing, skiing, winemaking and wine collecting, spending time with family and friends, and learning French.
WWW.DELLAWINES.COM
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