We couldn't confirm that Artisan Wine Company is still making wine3. Its own pages were last online in September 20041,2.
About the winery
Artisan Wine Company was a small Napa Valley firm that began making wine in 1984, under winemaker Michael Fallow, by its own account on Web Winery1. It sold its wines under the brand Harvest, with a label taken from "Grape Pickers", the mural Lew Keller painted for the St. Helena post office under a New Deal program and finished in 19411.
Its page on the principals said Fallow took a master's degree in viticulture and enology at UC Davis in 1975, learned winemaking under Warren Winiarski and Philip Togni from 1977, and made wine and managed vineyards at Robert Mondavi, Stonegate and William Hill wineries2. His partner Gavin Gracey, born in South Africa and in the Napa Valley since 1975, had managed Meadowood Resort in St. Helena and the restaurant at Domaine Chandon, and was a keen home winemaker2.
From the archives
Pages Artisan Wine Company published on the original Web Winery, from April 1999.
Artisan Wine Company and its Harvest label. Artisan Wine Company's history page, on Web Winery by June 2003, described a small Napa Valley firm making wine since 1984 under winemaker Michael Fallow, sold under the Harvest brand. The label came from Lew Keller's 1941 mural "Grape Pickers" in the St. Helena post office, and the page told the mural's New Deal story. Wayback copy
The principals: Michael Fallow and Gavin Gracey. A page on Web Winery by December 1999 introduced the two principals: winemaker Michael Fallow, a 1975 UC Davis graduate who had worked at Robert Mondavi, Stonegate and William Hill wineries, and Gavin Gracey, a South African-born Napa Valley hotel and restaurant manager and home winemaker who ran management and marketing. Wayback copy
