Winery Story

Kinsman Eades

Can young winemaking talent with limited means create a successful wine label in Napa Valley these days without outside investors? Given the rising cost of land, fruit, and production facilities, it seems impossible, yet bootstrappers Nigel and Shae Kinsman found a way.

Bootstrappers

“Even with our tiny initial production, sourcing fruit, and not having purchased a winery, we dumped our house deposit and more into Kinsman Eades before we sold anything,” says Shae Kinsman, co-founder with her husband Nigel of Kinsman Eades, one of Napa Valley’s hottest new wine labels. “We bootstrapped it. We had three young kids,...