When the wildfires tore through Napa Valley on the night of October 8, 2017, Robin and Michelle Baggett did not wait. They cooked 30,000 meals for first responders during the crisis, donated tasting room sales to relief efforts and opened the door for their Wine Club members and supporters to help. By January 2018, the Alpha Omega Foundation had raised $100,000 and delivered every single dollar to the Napa Valley Community Foundation and the Rutherford Volunteer Fire Department. This is the story of a community that showed up for itself.

Alpha Omega has always believed that great wine deserves to be told as well as it is made. In December 2017, the winery took a significant step toward that belief by creating a brand new role and filling it with one of Napa Valley’s most respected marketing minds. Rhett Gadke spent 18 years helping build Bounty Hunter Rare Wines from a small catalog into a consumer-direct leader in fine and rare wine. Now he brings that same instinct for storytelling and brand building to the Rutherford Bench.