Innumero Wines - Winemaker

Ashley fell into the wine industry in a roundabout way. Growing up, wine was always on the table. Her mom and dad loved to cook and make dinner together and wine was always a part of that togetherness. Ashley came to love how wine brought people together. In college, Ashley decided to study Chemical Engineering, thinking that would be a good degree to use to go to medical school, which had always been plan. During college, she worked in a hospital doing wound care and working with patients in the physical therapy department, and although she loved it, she realized being inside a hospital was definitely not where she was meant to be.

With a nudge from one of her Chemical Engineering professors, Ashley started applying to wineries, thinking only of working one harvest and then going back to graduate school. A week after graduation, she moved to Sonoma County to start work at a custom crush winery in Sebastopol called Owl Ridge.

Time at Owl Ridge provided mentoring by some of the top Pinot Noir vintners in California such as Merry Edwards, Greg Lafollette, Anthony Austin, and Scot Covington.

By mid-2007, Ashley found herself at Mauritson Wines as Enologist and soon was named Assistant Winemaker. In 2011, she decided to take the leap into consulting. Today, Ashley is Innumero’s winemaker and is the dynamo responsible for producing all of our wines.

Charlie Chenoweth

When he was just eight years old, young Charlie Chenoweth was tasked by his father to uproot his grandad’s cherry trees. With dynamite. Thus, started his career in farming.

Fast forward a couple decades and the boy who “grew up farming unwillingly” on the family farm morphed into one of the most talented farmers in the business. The man who can coax from a grape vine what is arguably planet Earth’s finest example of Pinot Noir.

It was Charlie’s idea in 2000 to tear out the apple orchard his father had planted to make way for Pinot Noir grapes, the varietal best suited to the cooler microclimate of the Russian River Valley in western Sonoma County. With the eye of an architect and the hand of the sculptor, his meticulous hand cares for every vine, leaf, spur and cluster.

Charlie is known to the handful of master winemakers responsible for the most sought-after “cult” wines as one of Wine Country’s elite growers, whose vast knowledge and fanatical attention to detail produces fruit of the highest quality.

Pam Bacigalupi, Nicole Bacigalupi, Katey Bacigalupi & Helen Bacigalupi

The dream of owning a vineyard for Charles and Helen Bacigalupi became a realization in the early 1950s. Charles and Helen moved to the small town of Healdsburg after both graduating from school in San Francisco. Charles worked as the local dentist and Helen as a pharmacist. Always possessing a love of the land the couple decided to move onto Westside Road in 1956, and purchased 121 acres. In a simple beginning, Charles began to care for the 16 acres of existing vineyards which included Zinfandel, Mission, Golden Chaslis and Muscat.

The Bacigalupi’s gained recognition as growers during the 1976 Paris tasting when the 1973 Napa Valley Chardonnay from Château Montelena with Bacigalupi fruit triumphed over many acclaimed French wines to be declared the undisputed winner. This event was to be the turning point in America’s global wine image. That same block of Chardonnay used to produce this worldly renowned wine is still in existence today and carefully tended by the family.

With 65 years of experience in the grape growing and wine industry the family is also known for sourcing fruit to some of Sonoma and Napa’s most sought after names. With now 3 generations involved , the family showcases wines under their own label at their tasting room on Westside Road just outside Healdsburg.

Grand Cru is a cooperative wine production business founded by Robert & Erin Morris and Todd & Erin Gottula that produces roughly 25,000 cases annually and is where Innumero Wines are crafted. Grand Cru is a major step ahead of all other crush facilities and includes a large variety of small tanks, the best crush equipment, and perfectly sized barrel rooms that work well with our target client production. We also provide a focus on hospitality and customer interactions to help our clients build their DTC business.

Greg LeDoux and Associates designed the facility using inspiration from the Boradorri Garage, an historical building overlooking the ocean in Cayucos California. Built in 1932, the Boradorri Garage, still stands today and represents the essence of craftsmanship and classic American architecture. We carried this inspiration forward with our design and consider it a symbol of the artisanal craft within our wines.

For More Than 70 Years, Sonoma County Vintners Has Been the Leading Voice of Sonoma County Wine

Sonoma County Vintners (SCV) is dedicated to raising awareness of Sonoma County as one of the world’s premier wine regions. SCV represents over 250 wineries throughout the county.

The organization actively promotes Sonoma County through educational programming; advocates for its members at local, state and federal levels; and contributes to the local communities through the Sonoma County Vintners Foundation. Sonoma County Wine Auction, its annual fundraiser, benefits nonprofit organizations throughout the region.

Bella is Innumero’s Ambassador of Cutness and Canine Hospitality. Occasionally making an appearance at tastings, she is keenly interested more in the cheese and charcuterie than she is wine . . . but understandably so.

She has a knack for endearing herself to all of our guests, and in exchange for good pets and scritches, she will retrieve any ball vigorously thrown.

Her palate leans towards a protein diet . . . but a good carrot or broccoli floret (while difficult to pair with wine) rarely escapes her.