Winemaker
Tony Biagi
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- Oakville, California, United States
i. Biography
Tony Biagi’s work sits inside modern California wine as a sequence of cellar jobs, founding roles, and consulting assignments tied to specific places. He is the winemaker of To Kalon Vineyard Company in Oakville, a position that comes after Plumpjack, CADE, Amici, Patria, Hourglass, and consulting work across Napa, Sonoma, and Paso Robles. The through line is less about reinvention than about carrying the same craft across named vineyards, estates, and appellations.
The Path
Training at University of California, Davis gave Tony Biagi the technical base for winegrowing and cellar work before the career moved into more site-specific production. From there, he worked as winemaker at Cade and Plumpjack in Northern California, then at Amici in Calistoga. Each stop added another layer of practical experience to the same trade, with the cellar work translating into named labels and estate programs. Since 2013, Tony Biagi has been founder and winemaker of Patria, winemaker of Hourglass, and consulting winemaker on projects in Napa, Sonoma, and Paso Robles including Clos Du Val, Lasseter, Jada, and My Favorite Neighbor. That mix of roles covers three common forms of winemaking responsibility: building a brand, maintaining an established program, and advising on projects that depend on steady judgment as much as execution.
The Work Today
To Kalon Vineyard Company in Oakville is the current center of Tony Biagi’s work, where he serves as winemaker. The role places him inside one of Napa Valley’s most closely watched vineyard names, with Oakville and To Kalon carrying the weight of site identity in the finished wine. It is a position defined by geography first, and by the discipline required to make that geography legible in bottle. Patria remains another active line in Tony Biagi’s career, where he serves as founder and winemaker. Since 2013, the project has given him authorship as well as production responsibility, keeping his name attached to a program built around his own decisions rather than only to an outside estate. In a career that moves across counties and house styles, Patria functions as the long-running personal label. Hourglass in St. Helena extends Tony Biagi’s Napa Valley work into another named site, while consulting assignments in Napa, Sonoma, and Paso Robles broaden the scope further. The list includes Clos Du Val in Napa, Lasseter in Sonoma, Jada in Paso Robles, and My Favorite Neighbor. That range points to a winemaker used to shifting between estates and regions without losing control of the work’s standards.
Acclaim
Recognition here is carried by the scope of the roles Tony Biagi has been asked to hold: winemaker, founder, and consulting winemaker across multiple California regions. The record includes Plumpjack, CADE, Sinegal Estate, Amici, Patria, Hourglass, and To Kalon Vineyard Company, along with consulting work that reaches from Clos Du Val to Lasseter and Jada. What is notable is the sequence of responsibility. The career moves from cellar leadership to founding, then to continued work across appellation-linked projects. For another artisan, that reads as a body of experience built through repeated work in named places, not through a single fixed post.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Tony
What is Tony Biagi's current role?
As of 2026, Tony Biagi is Winemaker.
Where did Tony Biagi train or study?
Tony Biagi trained at University of California, Davis.
