Hailing from the mountains of Northern California, Kip’s passion for wine developed while living on the Central Coast after his matriculation from the University of California Santa Barbara. After three years in the corporate wholesale industry, Kip chose to pursue that passion and turn it into a career by accepting a harvest role at Orcutt Road Cellars for the 2010 vintage. Since then, Kip has held winemaking roles at Bronco Wine Company, one of the largest producers in the state, Terravant Wine Company where he served as client winemaker for many established Santa Barbara County producers, the legendary Wild Horse Winery, as well spending two vintages in New Zealand as a Harvest Winemaker.
Kip is currently the winemaker for Chronic Cellars in Paso Robles, where he works predominately with Rhone and Bordeaux varietals from sources spanning the breadth of the Paso Robles AVA.