Mike Moone is up to something. He always is. With his passion for ideas, tireless imagination, and a contagious joie de vivre, Mike has burnished a reputation as one of Napa Valley's most iconic visionaries and enterprise-builders.

Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, amidst the breezy beach-boy culture of the 1960's, Mike grew up living the California dream of endless summers, enduring promise and limitless possibilities. While this charmed view might have washed out with the undertow, it instead engendered an outlook that Mike carried with him to college and beyond. Upon graduating from UCLA, he embarked on a career that led him through the upper reaches of classic corporate America. After making his mark in a variety of CEO roles, Mike connected his long-standing passion for wine to building a series of wine-enterprises in the Napa Valley.

Along the way, Mike has done just about everything one could aspire to in the wine industry, from transforming Beringer Vineyards into one of the leading wine producers in the western world, to founding Luna Vineyards, to launching Silverado Partners, a venture that currently farms over five thousand acres of North Coast property. Over the preceding 30+ years, one thing that Mike did not do, but always wanted to, was to introduce an extraordinary limited-production wine bearing both his name and a commitment to astonishingly wonderful winemaking. When he accomplished this with his partners MaryAnn and Larry Tsai, through the establishment of Moone-Tsai Wines, everyone knew that Mike was up to something good.