Out of budding passions for fine wines at table with simple European foods discovered during early travels in central Europe, Michael and Kathryn Havens found each other and the inspiration to bring those pleasures back home. Havens Wine Cellars, established in 1984, performed its first crush in the back of a flatbed truck.
Fellow gypsies and co-owners, Russell and Jon Scott, helped the Havens hand-punch the fermenting grapes and then joined them for the first bottling. The subtle and complex wines of Bordeaux and the Rhone continue to kindle the Havens’ love for fine wine and enhearten their work to produce it.
But it is the kindred spirit among now eight good people crafting beautiful old-world wines in a modest new-world enterprise that today ranks Havens Wine Cellars among them.
Havens Wine Cellars, located in Napa Valley, California, produces fine Merlot, Syrah, and Cabernet Franc selected by top restaurants, wine shops, and specialized retailers around the world. Distinguished by wines with the complexity and refined elegance of their classic European counterparts, Havens Wine Cellars is renowned for its visionary selection of fruit from the cool Carneros region of California and the artisanal direction of an owner-winegrower, Michael Havens.
