Winemaker Profile:
Casa Nuestra Winery

ALLEN PRICE

by Charles Neave
This might be one of the best (perhaps the only) winery in all the Napa Valley that could include the term “counterculture” in its’ description. “Laid back” would be another couple of words that would fit quite well. Gene Kirkham, owner, founder and the self-described “happy farmer” of Casa Nuestra Winery (“our house” in Spanish) would be comfortable with any of those descriptions.
Yet their wine, the Chenin Blanc, was served at the Ronald Reagan White House; perhaps then President Reagan did not know that ...

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