Featured User: Roy Goble

Roy Goble is a vineyard owner, real estate investor, author, founder of PathLight.org , married to his lifelong love, and a father of two adult children. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Delectable: What sparked your passion for wine? Roy Goble: In the mid-80’s my wife and I visited a friend in Bordeaux , who generously taught us about wine and sparked the passion. We were so excited that when we returned home, I built a wine cellar in our basement! We began collecting great wines, and the first California wine we had was a 1979 Caymus I found mismarked at the local Safeway for just $10! D: What wine region are you wild about right now? RG: My favorite wines are coming from Napa ( Realm is probably my favorite overall), but we’ve been enjoying New World wines for decades. D: What is the most unusual wine you’ve ever tried? RG: On a recent visit to Peru I had a wine made from the Quebranta grape, which is normally only used for making Pisco . It was....interesting? Almost no aroma. I can see why they usually only use it for Pisco! D: What is your golden rule for wine? RG: Wine is history in a bottle, and history amounts to stories, so learn the story to the wine and you’ll appreciate it more. D: Say you’re not allowed to have wine, what is your second option? RG: Gin and tonic, Hendricks , slice of cucumber. Especially on hot days. D: Choose a movie, book, quote, or song and pair it with a wine RG: My wife and I were in Tuscany staying at the Banfi estate and I read Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron. I will always connect the book with Brunello di Montalcino ! D: If you were a wine, what wine would you be? RG: I was in Willamette Valley recently with friends and we played the game of assigning an Enneagram number to the varietals. We laughed as we argued about what personality profile fit each major varietal. I am a three on the Enneagram (Achiever) and the consensus was this is the Cabernet Sauvignon . To give you some idea of the game, Pinot was a four (Individualist), Sauvignon Blanc was a nine (The Peacemaker), etc. It was silly but had us laughing and thinking at the same time.