Vincent Fritzsche - Oregon Wine Country Winemaker in the Willamette Valley

It takes a certain type of person to become a winemaker, a surfer, an academic, and an all around genuine nice person. Vincent is one of those If You Know, You Know winemakers in Oregon. Plenty of people know who he is, but his marketing is all grassroots word of mouth. Making wines from some top name vineyards such as Zenith, Armstrong, Bjornson, and Temperance Hill to name a few. Vincent’s quality and price point are amongst the best you can get.

Vincent and I talk about his first wine epiphany at the age of four, a new project coming online with fruit from Napa, and team flip flop. Please enjoy my conversation with Vincent from Vincent Wine Company.


Outline of our conversation
00:00 Intro
02:30 Wine epiphany at the age of five
07:15 Revisiting Napa and going to Grad school
13:15 Advice to your younger self in 2009
17:15 Early on grassroots marketing with the blog
20:30 I messed up on my research by thinking Vincent did coding
22:40 Lessons on letting wine do its thing instead of forcing it
30:54 Team Flip Flop in Napa
34:35 The story behind Vincent’s long hair
39:15 The Napa project
51:40 Rapid Fire Questions