Marissa is a Southern California native who moved to the Bay Area in 2008. She worked as a higher education coordinator for both Santa Rosa Junior College and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for nearly seven years. Marissa has always been passionate about food and wine and yearned for a career within the industry. Following her culinary dreams, she became the Sales & Marketing Coordinator at Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company in West Marin, where she handled their restaurant and wholesale accounts, cheese club, and customer relations. Marissa relocated to Lake County in summer of 2017.
“A family-run, sustainable, ethical ranch…. award-winning, estate-grown wines… on a gorgeous 4,300-acre slice of heaven, right down the road from my house? It felt like a dream — I knew I had to be part of the team.”
Marissa joined us in October 2017