35th Anniversary of Fenestra Winery

In August we celebrated the 35th anniversary of Fenestra Winery. I was a professor at San Jose State University teaching Organic Chemistry and started to make wine as a hobby. I found that I enjoyed making wine more than teaching, and had a burning desire to start a commercial winery. So we made a deal with (the original) Stony Ridge Winery, which was at the old Ruby Hill Winery in Pleasanton, whereby we had the use of the facilities and some of the grapes and I was the consulting winemaker for them. I was still teaching full-time and we were living in San Jose.