Owner
Tom Klein
Proprietor, Rodney Strong Vineyards
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Portrait of Tom Klein
i. Biography
Tom Klein is the proprietor of Rodney Strong Vineyards in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, and the Klein family has owned the winery since 1989. He is a fourth-generation California farmer who studied business at Stanford and began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company before becoming involved in wine after evaluating Rodney Strong Vineyards as a consultant. Under his leadership, Rodney Strong Vineyards was named Wine Enthusiast’s 2013 American Winery of the Year, and Klein received Wine Enthusiast’s 2024 American Wine Legend Wine Star Award.
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