The Good Stuff – Alegria Vineyards

In this episode of The Good Stuff presented by the Sonoma County Winegrowers, hosts Virginie Boone and Karissa Kruse talk to Bill Nachbauer, Owner of Alegria Vineyards.

Bill grew up in Vallejo, but his Sonoma County roots are deeper than our Zinfandel vines’. In 1868, great-great-grandparents on his mother’s side settled in Windsor, less than three miles south of Alegría Vineyards. At about the same time, great-great-grandparents on his father’s side settled near Petaluma. In the 1890s, one of Bill’s grandfathers was working in vineyards in the Napa Valley.

After college and law school at UC Berkeley, Bill went to Washington, DC,