About Atelier

Atelier’s husband and wife team left the Silicon Valley six years ago to relocate to the wine country town of Healdsburg in rural Sonoma County. She, already a winemaker by profession, and he, a project manager, dreamed of marrying their individual talents to create a small, family winery where they would produce boutique wines that were reflective of their passion for great wine and their love of the worldwide wine country lifestyle. After diving into this pursuit by producing a barrel or two of Zinfandel and Syrah in their garage they rented space from a friend at another boutique winery and started their commercial wine venture in 2002.

We enjoy wine as part of our lifestyle. There are days we spend studying wines in great depth and many other days we include wine as an accompaniment to our other life pursuits. Many of the best moments of our lives have been accompanied by wine, from backpacking a special bottle of Bordeaux across Europe, sipping Riesling while watching summer stock at the Forest Meadow, picnicking at the coast with a bottle of Zinfandel, or waiting out a rainstorm with a bottle of Great Wall Red in Yangshuo. Our enjoyment of life has been enhanced by including wine in our daily lives and just as specific bottles enhance our memories of travels and friends we hope our wines will make moments of your life more pleasurable. The enjoyment we get from making our wine comes largely from the sense we get of being tied to the earth and the seasons and from knowing that our wines will be part of family dinners, special occasions, and relaxing afternoons and evenings. Our motto is ‘share and enjoy our wines in good company’ we certainly do!

What is an Atelier?

For those unfamiliar with our name, an atelier is a workshop or more specifically an artisan’s studio. For us the word conjures up a perfect image of who we are and what we have set out to do. Our winemaking began in our garage, which was our studio. As anyone who has ever dabbled in winemaking well knows, winemaking is as much an art as it is a science. In our garage workshop we took a creative approach to traditional winemaking to produce wines of elegance, balance, and distinction. Atelier is our atelier.

Why a key for our logo? In keeping with the theme of our artists’ studio we selected an antique skeleton key from a family collection as the emblem of our winery. The key has multiple meanings and much significance to us but first and foremost we are positioning Atelier as a key to unlocking the character of each of various wine appellations and varietals.