Rick joined the team at Grove Street after graduating from Sonoma State University with a degree in Wine Marketing in 1992. Born and raised in Sonoma County, Rick is a fourth generation Californian and has seen firsthand the powerful role the wine industry has played in the emergence of the local community. Rick’s family and their story were featured in Healdsburg Living Magazine. Whether helping his great-grandfather in the vineyard as a young kid or pouring wine at local events, he has always surrounded himself with people who have a passion for wine and has always been determined to help others find wines that match their personal tastes. Today, as co-owner of Grove Street Brokers, Rick has fulfilled a lifelong dream to be a partner in a business in the same Wine Country town he grew up in.

Contact: Rick@GroveStreetBrokers.com

David has been a professional wine broker for over 30 years with Grove Street. His work with Grove Street was featured in an INC Magazine Cover Story, and he has hosted numerous wine education seminars and tastings around the country and is known for his fun, easygoing manner and depth of knowledge. A self-proclaimed "anti wine snob," David's well known for his ability to take the intimidation out of understanding wine and helping people at all levels of experience to enjoy it. David is also a professional musician, having toured the world with a variety of national acts, as well as producing and playing on a host of recordings over the last 25 years. He also holds a degree in Multimedia and has developed websites and multimedia applications for many companies around the country. David lives in the redwoods along the Russian River with his thoroughly ridiculous dog Piglet.

Contact: David@GroveStreetBrokers.com

Since 1986 Sabrina has been procuring small production, hand-crafted, hard-to-find wines for her clients—especially under the radar wines that are always exciting to discover. She'll help you pinpoint wines you didn't know about, but once you've tasted them, you'll be thanking her. Over the years Sabrina has worked in winery tasting rooms, harvested grapes, and organized events. She still does promotional writing, loves to cook, garden, dance and sing. Sabrina was born and raised in Northern California, has a BA from Sonoma State University, she is a mother and a grandmother, and resides with her husband in Sonoma County.

Contact: Sabrina@GroveStreetBrokers.com

Guy moved to Sonoma County in 1978 and started a long career in the wine business—beginning as a zinfandel grower in Dry Creek Valley. By 1981 he was working with a corporate marketing team at a large winery. Then in 1991 he joined with five other "wine people" to form Grove Street Brokers, working with some of the most limited producers of high quality wines. Today Guy still enjoys pruning vines and working a bottling line. He has found that some of the best wines are produced by the smallest wineries, and at Grove Street, we help them with the exposure that they need.

Contact: Guy@GroveStreetBrokers.com

Tom Taylor (aka “Tommy Boy”, aka “Hollywood”, aka Grove Street’s “Director of Happiness”) started in the wine bizz in 1981 at Windsor Vineyards after a stint in Hollywood as a lighting tech and stagehand—as well as playing the sons of Ronald Reagan and Steve McQueen in two films for Republic Pictures. This was after he spent 7 months at sea as deckhand on a 39 ft Ketch sailboat. In 1983, he opened his own wine business, California Wine Connection, which merged with Grove Street Brokers in 2008. Our International Wine Broker and Man of Mystery is an avid golfer, tennis player, gardener and storyteller.

Contact: (707) 431-4259 ext. 226

Keith was born in Missouri then lived in Europe for two years where his passion and appreciation of wine began. He then started an international wine import and export company and has travelled extensively all over the world. Keith is a self-proclaimed foodie and enjoys experiencing fine dining as well as local faire. He enjoys cooking and preparing new and creative recipes to share—all, of course, paired with a great wine enjoyed with family and friends in and around his home in the Lake Tahoe area. His hobbies are playing golf with his son Kemper, travel and spending time with his wife Anita. Keith is also a proud grandfather of baby Jules.

Contact: Keith@GroveStreetBrokers.com

Allen has been in the wine business for over 30 years and meets the definition of a true renaissance man. He has been a professional musician since he was 17 years old and has traveled all over the world from the watering holes of the Central Valley of California to the top night clubs in Tokyo. On one occasion he had the good fortune to have John Lennon and Yoko in the audience for two hours while he played, and the pleasure of meeting them during a break in the music. Having grown up in the San Joaquin Valley of California, Allen has always had an interest in grapes and agriculture. He attended college to study viticulture and thought he might try growing grapes but realized early on just prior to graduating that he was too old for vineyard work. So he decided the next best thing was to become involved in wine sales and came on board with Grove Street in 2000. Allen and his wife Susan have two children and live in the city of Sonoma.

Contact: Allen@GroveStreetBrokers.com

Chris was raised in a family of winemakers and restaurateurs, where he learned the arts of great food and wine at home and in the kitchens of his family’s restaurants. Chris moved north to Sonoma County from San Francisco in 1975 to begin his more than 45 year career in the wine industry. He began as a cellar worker and then cellar supervisor at Italian Swiss Colony but soon moved on to being a blending consultant and a marketing advisor to many wineries. For the last 30 years Chris has been a Personal Wine Broker at Grove Street where he loves talking with his clients from all over the country and using his years of experience to match them with the perfect wines.

Contact: cbhdb@yahoo.com

The “Wine Guy,” was born and raised in the Wine Country and over the years has developed a true passion for the wine culture. The relationships he has made with winemakers, farmers, investors, and others in the industry have provided him with a wealth of knowledge and an inside perspective to further educate his clients and give them first access to wines “under the radar.”

Knowing that the product he represents contributes to family dinners, laughter, and just plain old GOOD TIMES brings him great joy! His work hard, play hard, attitude usually leads him to the golf course for therapy where he loves to entertain clients and soak up the California sunshine.

Wine represents his passion for life and his love for family and friends, the two most important things in this world. If not in Healdsburg he is in nearby Windsor or Santa Rosa spending time with his son Jackson and his better half Erica.

His goal is to continually make new acquaintances developing into friendships and solid long term relationships with his clients creating a WINE EMPIRE that will be second to none in the years to come!

Contact: WineGuy@GroveStreetBrokers.com