Roger Dial’s professional life in the world of wine over the last four decades has been expansive. As a pioneering proprietor he operated wineries on both the Pacific and Atlantic frontiers of a continent struggling to build a wine culture against considerable odds. As a winegrower he has cultivated most of the old world varieties and championed many new ones on 200+ acres of estate vineyards which witnessed the amazing transitions in cool climate viticulture. As a winemaker he assembled a respectable collection of gold medals from the most challenging North American and European competitions, without rendering too much gastric grief for his loyal patrons. As a wine writer he produced a substantial canon of scribblings, occasionally rising above the trivial and timely to inquiries aimed to effect more than good humor. As a wine educator his pedagogical line has remained consistently Hellenistic…it’s not “about” wine, it’s about humanity, and what this unique elixir does to compensate for the incomplete civility of our kind.

In 2003 Roger Dial and Adam Dial co-founded Appellation America to promote regional diversity in the North American wine culture.