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Mary Baker is the administrative partner of Dover Canyon Winery. Her duties include accounting, taxes, inventory management, wine club management, marketing support, and tasting room management. But she also enjoys working with Dan in the vineyard, and helping with crush activities during harvest. Her personal production of Cooke Cellars Sangiovese has a small but loyal following.
Thirteen years in wine hospitality and winery business management include an inaugural position as the first tasting room manager for Wild Horse Winery, and later the business manager for Justin Winery. Mary has also taught college-sponsored courses in wine appreciation, and she occasionally speaks on wine appreciation and food-and-wine pairing.
Mary is a regional editor and correspondent for Appellation America, covering the Paso Robles region. Mary also co-hosts the Wine and California forums online at the eGullet Society of Culinary Arts & Letters. As one of the original moderators on AOL’s Food and Drink Network, Mary hosted monthly online winemaker chats.
From 2002 to 2004 she served as a director on the board of the local vintners’ association, representing the Paso Robles appellation, entertaining international visitors, and speaking at local wine festivals and seminars.
She was also chairman of the 2004 Paso Robles Zinfandel Festival, an annual wine festival featuring a grand tasting, live and silent auctions, press events, artist receptions, and open house events at over 80 wineries.
In her spare time she writes and plants vegetables and flowers, many of which promptly die. She is the author of Fresh From Dover Canyon: Easy Elegant Recipes from Dover Canyon Winery. Mary writes the winery blog, which was recently featured in Business Week, and was chosen as a finalist in the 2007 American Wine Blog Awards.
She is currently working on another cookbook, and a collection of essays. Mary lives in a lovely 1921 farmhouse at Dover Canyon Winery with winemaker “Dover Dan” Panico, their four-year-old springer spaniel, Rebel Rose, and assorted cats and wildlife.
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