Steve Lawrence (Chateau La Corne + Dovecote), Part One

National Portfolio: Steve Lawrence has been a close friend to all of us at Grape for decades now. He is a wine polymath of sorts, having started in this business making Bordeaux during the 1982 vintage. Steve was one of the central figures in the Chalone Group's meteoric rise during the late eighties, brought us Lockwood shortly thereafter, is the man who invented Stag's Leap "Artemis," and most memorably to us he was the fellow responsible for setting us up as the Pacific Northwest's Clicquot distributor during the 90's and 00's. If you read Esther Mobley's excellent piece on Steve and his wife Diane in the San Francisco Chronicle last month, you know the sweet love story that is Chateau La Corne. Steve is all settled in now at his new home in Bordeaux, and we get the quick scoop on his new rural life there!