While in Argentina, Scott got a great education in high altitude vineyards and what it takes to find the best areas to make great bold and voluminous red wines. Scott was hired by Nicolas Cantena Zapata to help him design wines that could be brought into the U.S. He had the opportunity to go work in Argentina. Michelle before venturing off on his own to be a winemaking consultant. Landing in Sonoma County, he spent a few years at Kendall Jackson and Chateau Ste. An epiphany came over Scott, “You can make a living doing this?” He quit his job and entered the University of California, Davis completing a degree in Fermentation Science. While working as a cook, he went wine tasting up in the Sierra Foothills and saw all these cool, long-haired guys hanging out, listening to music, working a harvest, with their kids running around– an interesting casual and creative dichotomy of people and agriculture. On a lark, he purchased a truck, got a dog and headed to Northern California.
As a teenager, he initially wanted to be a forester, but at the age of 19, he got the itch to head out to the West Coast. They would dress up in period attire and play military music from the 1770’s.
He was a drummer in the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes & Drums. Growing up in Williamsburg, Virginia, Scott Peterson watched history unfold in front of his very eyes as right out the front door was beautiful colonial architecture and a Rockwellian downtown comprising his youth.