Pam Starr established Crocker & Starr in 1997 with Charlie Crocker, great grandson of Charles Crocker, founder of the Central Pacific Railroad. Starr partnered with the San Francisco businessman to resurrect the 100-year-old vineyard he purchased in 1971. The winery’s 100-acre estate vineyard in St. Helena sits on land that has grown grapes since the 1870s. After graduating from the University of California at Davis in 1984 with a degree in Fermentation Science, Starr worked her way up from harvest intern and barrel stacker to enologist and assistant winemaker at wineries in Sonoma Valley and San Luis Obispo. In 1991, she became the winemaker for Spottswoode in the Napa Valley where she worked in tandem with other now-celebrated winemakers Tony Soter and Mia Klein.
Karen MacNeil interviewed Pam Starr for WineSpeed in December 2019.
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