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SAVOR THE WINES
COOMBER
FAMILY
RANCH
Skip & Maureen Coomber
e: Skip @ coomber.com
p: 858 - 354 - 3910
The Coomber family loves
animals. They also love wine.
In 2009 they started out making
small batches of wine for thier own
enjoyment at Terravant, a fantastic
wine-making facility in Buellton,
California (a city made famous by
the wine movie SIDEWAYS).
Other well-known Santa Ynez
Valley winemakers producing at
Terravant are The Hitching Post
Winery, Alma Rosa, Ken Brown
and Summerland, When in that
area Terravant’s great restaurant
and tasting room, Avant, provides
the best opportunity in The Valley
to taste wines from multiple
wineries as its Wine Wall has 52
different Valley wines available to
try, including their wines.
Fortunately, their wines have been
well-received and various friends
(and restaurant owners) suggested
that they make them available to
the public. In fact, Bertrand Hug,
owner of Mille Fleurs (a top 100
restaurant) and Bertrand at Mr. A’s
told them that he would like to sell
Coomber's wines in his restaurants.
In 2009, for what seemed like
months, they sat at the dining room
table designing labels while
sampling their wines. Where does
one start?
As they sat there going over ideas
Murphy, their black lab, insisted on
sitting under their feet while
Maggie, their skateboard-riding
bulldog, sat there looking up at
them with a tennis ball in her
mouth, imploring someone to throw
the ball for her. Naturally, their
three black and white cats, Cherry,
Angel and Lucky, sat close to
them. The decision for the subject
of their labels could not have been
more clear. In one sense they have
made their pets immortal.
More than four years since they
started making wines they are now
taking their wines to market.
They have decided to use their
wine sales to support animal
welfare organizations. Coomber
donates at least 5% of all revenues
generated (not just of profits) to
animal welfare organizations.
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