At some point in the middle of his Hall of Fame baseball career, Tom Seaver was asked by his brother-in-law what he was going to do after he retired. Tom answered, “I’m going back to California to raise grapes”. Born and raised in Fresno, his father was in the raisin business and Tom had long been a collector of wine so his answer wasn’t particularly unusual. But it was the clarity of the thought that surprised even him. He didn’t revisit that conversation again until the mid-90s when, in his retirement, he started to feel the pull of a new adventure. Casual conversations about moving back to California became more serious, trips to the west coast (including Napa) became more frequent and longer in duration, and then in 1997 Tom and Nancy stumbled upon 116 acres for sale on Diamond Mountain in Calistoga and that prescient moment became manifest.