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Rob Newsom
Rob Newsom
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Rob Newsom

Boudreaux Cellars

Lavenworth, WA USA

"You don’t need to understand everything about a project ahead of time—you just need to take the first step. Get out there, start doing it, and don’t be afraid to mistakes."

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Day In The Life

Owner

Wine making makes use of all my talents: science, invention, process, blending, cooking, tasting, music, and joking.

Skills & Education

Here's the path I took:

  • High School

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Forestry, General

    Louisiana Tech University

Life & Career Milestones

My path in life has been direct

  • 1.

    Spent six years getting a degree in forestry, but once he started working in the field, he realized he hated it.

  • 2.

    While he was in college, he took a trip to Washington and attempted to climb Mt. Rainier; after that, he was completely hooked on mountain climbing.

  • 3.

    He moved to Washington and took a job planting trees so he could climb mountains on the weekend.

  • 4.

    After a year, he was experienced enough to guide mountain climbs to places like Mt. McKinley.

  • 5.

    On one of his guided climbs, his client offered him a job developing fly-fishing gear at Gore-Tex; he worked there for ten years.

  • 6.

    The job took him all over the world on an expense account; he was eating good food, drinking good wine, and meeting winemakers across the country.

  • 7.

    After the Gore-Tex job came to its natural end, he decided his next endeavor would be winemaking.

  • 8.

    Years earlier, he’d bought a piece of land for rock climbing; it’s now the Boudreaux Cellars vineyard and winery.