Gretchen Roddrick

• Executive Vice President, Hope Family Wines
  
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Gretchen Roddick joined Hope Family Wines in 1997 and never looked back. As Executive Vice President, she oversees all company operations, including production, winemaking, finance, hospitality, sales, and marketing. Gretchen has worked side by side with owner-winemaker Austin Hope for the past 25 years. In that time, annual sales have grown from 1,000 cases to nearly one million—a Paso Robles success story that culminated in Hope Family Wines being named Wine Enthusiast’s 2022 American Winery of the Year.

Gretchen was also recognized by her peers in 2022 as San Luis Obispo County’s Wine Industry Person of the Year. In the spring of 2023, she was named a Board Officer at Wine Institute after serving on the board of directors since 2008.

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Anji Perry

Viticulturist & Vineyard Research Director, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines

Anji Perry started her career at J. Lohr as a viticulture intern in 2004, and today, she oversees viticultural practice and research across the winery's vineyards—translating soil, vine, and climate data into decisions that help each site express its appellation. A soil scientist by training, Anji is also central to J. Lohr's sustainability program, working with the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance to certify every vineyard, winery, and facility the company operates. She partners with university and industry researchers on trials hosted at J. Lohr properties and serves on wine industry boards and committees.

Kristen Barnhisel

Winemaker, White Wine, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines

Kristen Barnhisel has made wine on three continents, and she has been shaping J. Lohr's entire white wine portfolio since 2015. She grew up in Santa Rosa with a microbiologist mother at Simi Winery and a home-winemaker father, but it was a semester in Italy that turned a summer job into a career. Encouraged by family friend and legendary California winemaker Zelma Long, Kristen became the first American, and one of the first women, to work harvest at Ruffino.
She went on to receive a master's in enology at UC Davis, with internships at Warwick Wine Estate in South Africa, Opus One, and Long Vineyard. She’s been an enologist at Columbia Crest, assistant winemaker at Jordan and Belvedere, co-winemaker at Handley Cellars in Anderson Valley, and quality control manager at Inglenook. Kristen served as president of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture from 2019 to 2020, a reflection of the research-minded approach she brings to J. Lohr's cool-climate whites.