FRES.CO Wine

Jack is the winemaker, owner, and founder of FRESCO. He grew up in San Francisco and spent his weekends in Sonoma Valley, where his family operated an organic vegetable farm and vineyard. His uncle began making wine from the family vineyard in 2000, and preteen-aged Jack was coerced into bottling the first two vintages. While bottling was (and still is) the least pleasant part of winemaking, this experience and the formative weekends spent in Sonoma left an impression.

After leaving to study Biology at Providence College, Jack moved home in 2012 to work his first wine harvest, working with his uncle and others in a custom crush winery he would later come to own and operate. He followed this up with harvests in 4 foreign countries (France, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile) alternating between Northern and Southern hemispheres. Along the way he stopped over at a few classic California wineries including Chappellet, Williams-Selyem, and Bedrock Wine Co. Now Jack manages Magnolia Wine Services, a shared-space winery and co-op that specializes in natural wines, organic vineyards, and small grower-producers.

On the way to running Magnolia and starting his brand, Jack studied sustainable agriculture and viticulture, unearthing a desire to align farming with natural processes. This philosophy led Jack to produce natural wine and in 2019, Jack launched FRES.CO (AKA the Fresh Wine Company) to provide leverage for growers to transition to regenerative, organic, and environmentally sustainable practices.