Sean Thackrey was one of the most influential and interesting people in the Bay Area food and wine community. Since 1980, he produced extraordinary wines through unique winemaking techniques, often drawing from historic, sometimes ancient, winemaking practices from all over the world and informed by one of the largest libraries of historic winemaking texts. Sean sourced grapes from many locations throughout California, and produced all his wines by hand (touching every grape) at his small Bolinas winery. Self-taught, and fully reliant on his intuition and senses, Sean was the antithesis of corporate wine-making and passed away in 2022.