The Ukiah Daily

A third generation San Franciscan, Dan”s family was well-established in the trucking business. As a young man he naturally found himself working as a teamster on the waterfront. But, as Dan tells it with a wide and warm grin “I always, always wanted to have a vineyard.”

To get a perspective of Mariah Vineyards” location, you have to drive over the hills toward the coast. When billowy cotton puffs of fog fill up the valleys, the coastal mountain peaks jut up like islands, just like — as the Mendocino Ridge appellation is nicknamed — “Islands in the Sky.”