Julie Lumgair is an award-winning consulting and hands-on winemaker.
Her wines span eighteen vintages and 25 varietals from Napa Valley,
Sonoma County and Italy. She has served in many combined estate
winemaking and winegrowing roles with a keen eye on agricultural and
cellar practices increasing both sustainability and top quality.
Her calling cards are consistently producing acclaimed wines that reflect
their place, excellence in winery operations, substantial innovation and
trial programs feasible for artisan wineries’ scale, a passionate attention
to customer delight and long lasting relationships.
Julie is a 5th generation Tennessee family farmer, who honed her sensory science, new product
development, team building and executive leadership in her first career at Procter & Gamble and
other noted Fortune 100 firms for 15 years. That experience, along with her "roll up the sleeves"
work ethic, plus technical and analytical skills learned on the job from many mentors in the
vineyards and cellars have been supplemented by years of rigorous independent study.
She has made exceptional wines including a new artisan Napa winery launching in 2023, J. Moss,
Ideology Cellars, Valley of the Moon / Lake Sonoma, Castello di Montegiove, Windsor Oaks
Vineyards and other private clients. Julie's ongoing wine trials and experiments have been featured
in industry press and conferences. Over 70 of her wines have consistently achieved 90+ scores and
been noted by several leading critics including a Wine Spectator "Producer to Watch," Wine & Spirits
varietal "Top Ten" and "Year's Best" lists.
Julie deeply enjoys volunteering, mentoring and building community. She is one of thirty industry
leaders on the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium Program Committee (North America's largest
industry conference) and serves as long-time Chair of the Napa / Sonoma Winemaking & Viticultural
Roundtable of Women for Winesense (a 100+ member group of leading winemakers, viticulture
professionals, owners and operations experts from Napa, Sonoma and other leading wine regions).
She is a contributing technical writer and wine judge for wine industry trade and consumer
publications, frequent winemaker panelist for Napa Valley Vintner’s top trade and media
conferences and VIP immersions and masterclass developer / instructor at Napa Valley Wine
Academy. She is a past board member for Napa Valley Wine Technical Group and IQ (Innovation +
Quality) Conference for luxury winemaking advances. She additionally serves as the Napa Valley
expert vintage consultant for the International Wine & Food Society, which advises fine wine
collectors and trade for all leading global wine capitals.
Thank you to my consulting clients and supporters.
