Laura Hawkes's Contact Details

Laura Hawkes's Company Details

Carpenter Wine

Healdsburg, California, United States • 7 Employees
Food Production

Laura Carpenter is a feisty number born in Charleston, South Carolina. Her dad was in the Air Force, so she lived and traveled all over growing up, eventually landing in California, where she fell in love with wine. Since then, she has worked in almost every aspect of wine, managing a shop in Berkeley, wine bar-tending in San Francisco, wheeling and dealing in the great state of Texas, then as a weekend spy and crush hand in Napa and Sonoma Counties. She married Jake Hawkes and settled down to make Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from a few of her favorite spots. Jake Hawkes was born and raised in Sonoma County, where his family has grown grapes for more than forty years. He enjoys fresh mountain air, Kosher pickles, and the music of the Drive-By Truckers. He has worked in vineyards and wine off and on for more half his life, mostly here in California, but briefly in Australia, too. A righty with decent opposite-field power and surprising speed for a big guy, Hawkes likes wines with lots of finesse, not lots of oak. "Jesus, give me some acid!" he has been heard to say. Now he has a wife and a couple kids, a development that feels like it rescued him from the tailspin of Italian New Wave movies, chewing tobacco and self-hatred that had claimed his waking hours for so many years.