Clay Spenser – Vineyard Haven

How a return to California Wine Country —and a reunion with childhood best friends— brought the SEAL Team actor to his Senses

- Por Dan Allen

It wasn’t inevitable that Max Thieriot would become a winemaker—but it was in his DNA. When he was a baby in 1989, his father, Cameron, planted some of the first Chardonnay vines in California’s now esteemed Sonoma coast. “Everybody told him, ‘Hey, you’re too far out on the Sonoma coast to grow Chardonnay—it’s too cold here; it’ll never work,” says Thieriot. “My dad basically said, ‘Well, screw you. I like to drink Chardonnay, so I’m going to plant it. If it doesn’t work, then so be it.’ Eventually he proved them all wrong, and B.A. Thieriot is now one of the, if not the, premier Chardonnay vineyards on the west Sonoma coast.”