Meet our partners

Mark Oberle

Mark is a physician and epidemiologist, currently working as Associate Dean for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle. He accompanied John Newmeyer on John's first exploration of Green Valley Ranch before John's group bought the Ranch in 1978. Mark, a founding partner of Heron Lake Winery, lived in the same House with John at Harvard College and subsequently served as a ranger naturalist in the National Park Service. He has continued his work in natural history with recent publications of bird photo books for Puerto Rico and a 3-CD set of audio recordings of bird song from the West Indies (www.puertoricobirds.com).

Tom Flesher

Tom is an old friend of John Newmeyer's and is a founding partner of Heron Lake Winery. He is one of the managers of Green Valley Ranch LLC, where he deals with roads, cattle, fencing and hunting. Tom is also EVP at E-Net Corporation, a software development company specializing in real-time data base replication and remote site disaster recovery for large-scale computer systems. An accomplished musician, he's been for 25 years the organist for First Presbyterian Church in Napa. Tom is blessed to live in the Napa hills next to Heron Lake Vineyard and particularly savors the same climate as our precious vines. Originally from Virginia, Tom grew up in the Bay Area, then back to Virginia to finish high school. He has a Bachelor's in mathematics from William and Mary and has been a computer geek since the days of punched cards. (see http://www.sacramentoexecutive.com/2005/12/post.html).

More to learn:
• Read our history.
• Hear from our winemaker David Mahaffey.
• Hear from our grower John Newmeyer.