Kevin Bersofsky was born an East Coaster but now makes his home outside of San Francisco in Marin County. The closest his family ever got to wine was nice cold gallon jug of screw cap California Chablis on the second shelf of the family fridge. It wasn’t until Kevin went to Cornell University for Engineering that the world of wine would be discovered. In his senior year he was lucky enough to attend the wines class and a new universe opened up to him. Kevin would attend culinary school on the weekends when home from consulting assignments.
In 2005, Sutter Home gave Kevin a front row seat to winemaking, learning the ropes of the wine industry. The wine makers took him under their wing and taught him the basic skills to make wine. Starting around that time he invited 12 friends to make a barrel of Syrah with him in his garage. From that group grew Montagne Russe. The group continued to increase in size until 2013 when he and 130 people were making wine in his Napa garage. Unfortunately Kevin’s neighbor Ross didn’t share in his enthusiasm for wine and called Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms on him in October of 2013. After much legal wranglings Kevin found a loophole in the law, poured 4 barrels of wine down the drain and lived to continue on, starting Montagne Russe for real in 2015. His first pinots scored 94 and 95 pts from Robert Parker. So its no wonder his winery is called Montagne Russe (Roller Coaster in French).