John C. Staten

John Staten began his dream of making world-class wines in 1977. As owner and vintner he’s overseen the development of some really world-class wines.
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John is an ordained Presbyterian Minister, the only winery owner we know of in this area to have this rare distinction.

I met the owner/vintner John C. Staten at the first-ever Heinen's/WVIZ World Series of Wine.He had the absolute best petite syrah I have ever tasted.He's a minister to boot!His home in Sonoma featured the front porch that was the site for the infamous Bartles and Jaymes commercials with the two old tucks.

John Staten continues tradition of visiting winemakers
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Next week John Staten of Field Stone winery will be back for another dinner with the Winemaker on March 22.
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Staten will be pouring his wines and answering your questions from 6 to 8 p.m. Be sure to go and visit with him.Thank him for visiting Monroe and let him know how much the people in the area appreciate his support.
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What: Wine tasting featuring winemaker John Staten of Field Stone Winery

Where: Tonore's Wine Cellar, 801 Louisville Ave., Monroe

Great wines are also a standard for owner and winemaker John Staten and his crew at this picturesque Sonoma winery.
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The wines of Field Stone will be poured by the winemaker himself, John Staten.John will be happy to answer any of your wine questions and autograph any bottles that you purchase.

Several winemakers - John Staten, Jonathan Dreyer, Walter Schug, Dick Steltzner, Michael Honig and Peter Spann - have been featured in events throughout our city and have been written about.

John Staten, Owner and Winemaker
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The wines will be presented by the winemaker, John Staten.

At Field Stone Winery in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley, the annual celebration is one of the most important events of the year as far as its president, John Staten, is concerned.Unlike the ceremonies at many other wineries, Field Stone does not celebrate the first truckload of grapes to roll onto the crush pad, but greets the season with a few sips of a still-fermenting white wine from the new vintage.John's role for the past dozen years, since he is an ordained minister as well as grape grower and winemaker, has been to lead the assembled in prayers of thanksgiving and read an appropriate passage from the Bible, completing the ceremony by raising a glass of the new wine in a salute to all those who had a hand in its creation.

Some years things don't go exactly as planned.In 2001, John was stranded in Chicago, and missed the ceremony completely due to the unbelievably tragic events of September 11, and at least once, John was on hand but Mother Nature was playing games and the grapes not only weren't fermenting, they weren't even ripe.This year, though, for the lucky 13th occasion, everything went just as planned.This year also marked the beginning of the second quarter-century for the small winery which was founded in 1977 by the late Wallace Johnson, John Staten's father-in-law and inventor of the upright grape harvester.

So, this harvest season John may have been a bit more fervent in his prayer of thanksgiving: