In the start, the head winemaker was Peter Stern, mostly as a part-time winemaker. area and then they finally moved to the location they are today, in Oxnard, in 2005. With time, the Herzog moved to Santa Maria, which was closer to the L.A.
In those days, San Jose was the closest thing to a community for them, that was close enough to San Martin, for them to live a Jewish life and work as cellar rat/master at Herzog Wine cellars. The days of San Martin, when I met Josh Goodman and his wife (PSA – be careful with how you pronounce her name) when they were in the San Jose Jewish community. Herzog Wine Cellars (which now go by not, no idea why they dropped that and emails bounce all over the place, a better idea would have been simple web/MX record routing/forwarding – but enough tech talk) has been in the wine business, in California, since 1984.
