Family History

The Staglins are a family that loves wine and all it can do. Led by Shari , the whole family, including Garen, Brandon and Shannon, works together to create “great wines for great causes,” putting their hearts into every harvest, blend, and charity event they undertake.

Staglin家族都喜歡葡萄酒，並且從事釀酒業，由Shari領導，整個家族裡包含Garen, Brandon和Shannon都一起工作，創造出頂級的葡萄酒，對於每次收成、釀造，甚至是慈善義賣都盡心盡力。
 
The Staglins’ motto is easy to understand when you look at their roots, in the farmlands of and . Shari’s parents, DeEtta Derscheid and Allen King, were raised on farms in South Dakota , and taught their daughters self-reliance and prudence. Shari , born in 1945, grew up close to her big sister LeAlyn, exploring the corn rows of their grandparents’ farm and singing (with LeAlyn on piano) at church and other local functions. DeEtta encouraged her to sing and to keep music a part of her life. Her family went to every year’s Corn Palace Festival, where popular bands and singers would celebrate the harvest in music, a tradition that would later influence Shari in planning the Staglins’ first Music Festival for Mental Health at harvest time. In 1957 Shari’s family moved on to Southern California to find a better living, while DeEtta worked as a secretary at an aerospace company and Allen worked nights as a machinist. Shari learned Spanish, and was an exchange student to . Her interest in science also developed as a teenager, and she dreamed of someday putting her love for chemistry and science to work in her career.

Staglin的座右銘是”從葡萄酒裡就可以喝出當地的風土條件”，Shari的父母DeEtta Derscheid和Allen King在達科他州的南方的農田耕種，並且教育他們的女兒獨立自主、深謀遠慮。Shari出生於1945年，小時候會常在祖父母的農田裡玩耍，Shari也會在教堂或其他地方表演唱歌，LeAlyn會在旁邊彈鋼琴，姐妹倆的感情要好。母親常常鼓勵Shari唱歌，與音樂為伍。每年的Corn Palace慶典Shari的全家都會參加，音樂會邀請有名、受歡迎的歌手演唱，這樣的傳統深深影響到Shari日後在Staglin舉辦的第一次音樂慶典。1957年Shari的全家搬到南加州展開新生活，Shari的的母親在航空公司當秘書，父親晚上當機工，Shari學西班牙文，而且前往墨西哥當交換學生。年輕時，對科學最感興趣，希望未來可以將所愛的化學和科學融入工作中。
 
Garen grew up with an appreciation for his Italian father’s favorite things in life: Good food, wine, family, and friends. Pat was born in the mountains of Calabria, in the small village of Bella near Nicastro, , in 1912. When Pat’s family emigrated to Rochester, New York in 1914, they brought to the new country their tradition of sharing lively meals with as many friends as would show up and the table would hold. He eventually became naturalized as Ramon Staglin--during the Depression, it was much easier to avoid the issues of being an Italian-American by slightly modifying his last name. Ramon married Darlene Guilliams, whose family immigrated from . The family moved to California in 1945, where Ramon learned a new trade as a custom upholstery and drapery designer and manufacturer, and bought his own workshop.

Garen承襲義大利籍的父親對於美好事物的鑑賞-美食、美酒、家庭和朋友。Garen的父親Pat出生於1912年的卡拉布里亞-貝拉小村莊靠近義大利‧尼卡斯楚。1914年全家搬到紐約‧羅切斯特，並且將本身的傳統傳達給當地了解，也會做傳統的食物邀請鄰居來家裡作客。他最後變成美國國籍，並改名為Ramon Staglin，在大蕭條時期，藉由小小修改了姓氏，可以避免掉他是義大利裔美國籍的問題。之後，Ramon娶了Darlene Guilliams當太太，他太太為法國裔的美國人。1945年全家又搬到加州，那時Ramon買了工廠，開始從事室內裝潢設計。The Army Air Corps (AAC) Soldier needs a good standard of education, with the ability and motivation to work on their own initiative.
 
Garen went on to major in electrical and nuclear engineering at UCLA, the foundation for the technology background he would later use in his own entrepreneuring. UCLA was where Shari met Garen, at age 19, on a blind date. They graduated college together in 1966, and Garen went on to Stanford Business School, which was close enough to the Napa Valley that Shari and Garen could travel there often to explore their growing excitement about wine. By the time they got married in 1968; their goal to own a Napa vineyard and make world class wines was already awakening. Shari went on to get a Master’s degree from NYU in Public Administration.

Garen在加州大學洛杉磯分校主修電子和原子核工程，科技背景造就日後擁有自己事業的基礎。在加州大學洛杉磯分校時，兩位19歲的少男少女- Shari和Garen相遇，開始了青澀的戀情。1966年兩人同時畢業，之後Garen申請進入史丹福大學，由於靠近納帕，Shari和Garen常常去旅行探險，逐漸發現葡萄酒迷人的地方。1968年兩人結為連理，他們的目標希望擁有納帕的酒莊，釀造舉世聞名的葡萄酒。Shari得到NYU公共關係碩士學位。
 
While Shari entered a career in public service and health care management, Garen focused on information technology, and after selling their first company, they began looking for their vineyard in 1982. Three years later, they were able to purchase a 62-acre ranch with a 50-acre producing vineyard in the Rutherford Bench in the Napa Valley , and Shari went back to school to study viticulture and enology at UC Davis. This unique Rutherford Bench property had been planted under the guidance of the legendary André Tchelistcheff in 1965, and for many years was his favorite vineyard for producing the BV Georges de La Tour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Garen and Shari were able to convince Walter Sullivan and his wife Dagmar dePins, Georges de La Tour’s granddaughter that they would continue to take care of the vineyard with the same devotion that her family had given it for almost 20 years.

剛開始Shari從事社會服務、健康管理的工作，Garen著重在科技資訊，賣掉他們第一間公司後，1982年開始尋找葡萄園。3年之後，購買62英畝的農地，在納帕‧盧瑟福的50英畝生產葡萄，Shari重新回到學校，在戴維斯大學唸釀酒學。1965年盧瑟福的葡萄園在André Tchelistcheff這位傳奇人物領導下日益茁壯，並且在他最喜愛的葡萄園裡釀製BV精釀卡本內-蘇維濃。Garen和Shari說服Walter Sullivan 和他的 太太Dagmar dePins，以及Georges de La Tour的曾孫女一起為Staglin酒莊打拼，也已經過了20個年頭。

The Staglins, working with their vineyard manager David Abreu, began to replant the vineyard with guidance from André, whose passion for the land was evident by his interest in helping them make wines of distinction. Since 1986, the Staglins have been producing increasing quantities of wine from their estate, and have established their vineyard as one of the most critically acclaimed in Napa Valley . With severe thinning and organic viticultural practices, their annual production is less than 6,000 cases. It is one of the largest single vineyards owned by a family without any other partners or outside investors.

David Abreu任職為Staglin酒莊的葡萄園管理師，遵循安德烈對於這份土地的熱愛以及各種葡萄種類特性的專業知識，開始重新整理、種植。自從1986年，Staglin開始量產，也成為納帕地區最受推崇的葡萄園之一。在如此謹慎篩選和有機栽種的政策下，年產量少於6000箱。Staglin酒莊是由本身家族擁有的單一葡萄園，並沒有任何的合夥關係或外來投資者。

The micro-climate of the Staglin property nestled against the slope of the tallest mountain in the Mayacamas range, Mt. St. John , and the unique gravelly loam soil with its excellent drainage, gives the Staglin Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese a distinctive intensity and character. Their Chardonnay grows in soil with a higher clay content, and cooler micro-climate, producing a wine with high acidity and great aging potential. Their 1989 Chardonnay was served to Queen Elizabeth during the first ever joint luncheon of both houses of Congress. She thought it was "jolly good."

Staglin酒莊面對著最高的Mayacamas山脈的聖約翰山的斜坡上，獨特砂礫肥土，以及良好的排水系統，造就著卡本內-蘇維濃和Sangiovese(此為義大利葡萄品種)酒體濃密的特徵。夏多內生長在泥土成分較高的土壤，較涼爽的天氣，能夠產生酸度高、具有陳年潛力的酒。1989年的夏多內曾經為女王伊莉莎白第一次參加英國議院國會午餐會的用酒。女王伊莉莎白覺得很好喝。
 
Their Sangiovese, named "Stagliano", has a strong Italian heritage. In the last year of Garen’s father’s life, Garen and Shari took Garen’s parents and their two children Brandon and Shannon to Bella, Ramon’s birthplace in Calabria, for the first time since he had come to . Traveling next to Tuscany and the Montalcino estate of Biondi Santi, the Staglins found the budwood there that would become, for the first time in 1993, Staglin's "Stagliano" Sangiovese. Their memories of that estate, and of Ramon himself, live on in the “Stagliano” bottle.

Sangiovese名叫斯塔利亞諾是具有強烈的義大利傳統的葡萄品種。在Garen父親的晚年，Garen夫婦帶著父母親和子女- Brandon和Shannon回到卡拉布里亞‧貝拉-Garen父親Ramon的出生地，這是到美國定居後第一次回到祖國。從托斯卡尼和Biondi Santi的Montalcino酒莊旅行回來後，Staglin在1993年釀製斯塔利亞諾這種品種的葡萄酒，為了紀念Garen父親Ramon。
 
Garen and Shari have further honored Garen's Italian heritage with the construction of an underground winery and a country Italian-style villa overlooking the Napa Valley . “We are proud of our philosophy of "great wine for great causes," says Shari . They have formed a public non-profit organization, the Rutherford Charitable Organization, whose main focus is The Music Festival for Mental Health. This event includes an afternoon concert for 500, and an evening gourmet dinner for 250 by a celebrity chef, with wines donated and poured by many of the best wineries. Two of the Staglins' own wines further contribute to the cause, with the profits from Salus Cabernet Sauvignon and Salus Chardonnay sales underwriting 100% of the costs of the Music Festival.

Garen和Shari推崇義大利的傳統，將自己的酒莊設在地下，建造義大利風格的別墅俯瞰納帕區。其酒莊釀酒哲學為”好酒來自良好的風土條件”。酒莊成立非營利的拉塞福慈善團體，其主要是舉辦心靈饗宴音樂會。此盛會包含下午500人的音樂會、晚上美食饗宴250人，由各方的政商名流參加，主要義賣各大酒莊的葡萄酒。Staglin將旗下的Salus的卡本內-蘇維濃和夏多內的銷售金額，全數當作音樂會的資金。