Jeremy treats winegrowing as an ecologist would, by listening to nature rather than by imposing a rigid belief system onto it.

Jeremy grew up in New York drinking German, Italian and French wines with his family. As a 20-year old he worked at a Long Island winery, where he learned about farming wine grapes from a Bordeaux-trained winemaker. Ten years later, after working in Washington, D.C. and Manhattan, he moved to California on his motorcycle to enroll in graduate school at UC Davis to better understand how plants, microbes and humans communicate to make wine.

After school he worked in Central Otago and Martinborough and then earned a fellowship to work at Antinoriʼs Tignagnello and Solaia estate. He had winemaking jobs on the Central Coast before taking the winemaker position at Seavey Vineyard in Napa. The lure of growing multiple varietals brought him back to the Central Coast to be winemaker at Adelaida Vineyards in Paso Robles and launch SITE. 

SITE is Jeremy’s micro project to emphasize the most important thing determining quality in a glass of wine–the site. Not the winemaker. Not the type of fermentation vessel. Not even the particular vintage. SITE works with three Santa Barbara County vineyards, where he has had the same rows since 2012.