Gus is is the former president of the 100-plus member Rogue Chapter of the Oregon Winegrowers Association. He was instrumental in establishing a local Slow Food convivium last year, and, as much as his winemaking allows, is committed to activities that are supportive and restorative of the Rogue Valley’s agricultural, ecological and cultural heritage.

Gus and Julia live in the foothills above Ashland, Oregon, in a tiny house which originally served, in the late 1800’s, as headquarters for the Ashland Mine. When they are not busy propping up their home against the relentless pull of gravity, they can be found taking walks with their two rescued dogs, Fairnytickle and Hamish, or tending to the multitude of growing things on their little acreage, including a thirty-year-old dry-farmed half-acre experimental vineyard whose fruit is gratefully harvested each fall by a resident black bear. Julia divides her working time between teaching literature and writing at a local college, and pursuing an ever-increasing passion for the visual arts, pottery, and sculpture.

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