Dry Extract Interview: Doug Shafer of Shafer Vineyards, Napa Valley, USA

Doug Shafer heads Shafer Vineyards in Napa's Stags Leap District AVA. He arrived in Napa Valley as a teenager in 1973 when he moved with his family from Chicago to a new home in the rugged foothills of the Stags Leap Palisades. Throughout his high school years, he helped his father, John Shafer, in the vineyards and eventually enrolled in the enology and viticulture programme at the UC Davis. In 2012, he published his memoir, A Vineyard in Napa, recounting 40 years inside the Napa Valley wine industry.