People to Know: Fritz Hatton

Fritz Hatton is the nation’s most experienced wine auctioneer. He and his wife Caren own the Napa Valley winery Arietta, one of the region’s top producers of Bordeaux-style wines. A native of Michigan, Hatton is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale with a degree in English Literature, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Organization and Management. He began his career in Christie’s Wine Department in 1980 where he remained off-and-on for more than 20 years, moving from management to Principal Wine Auctioneer. During several breaks from Christie’s during the 1990s, Hatton briefly returned to his classical music studies (which he had begun at age 7). Hatton joined Zachys Wine Auctions in 2002, where he continues to conduct all commercial wine auctions, in addition to hundreds of charitable auctions nationwide, and of course, overseeing Arietta winery.
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