About Us
Vinedresser Vineyard Management, Inc. is a vineyard management company based in Napa, farming winegrape estates across Napa and Sonoma counties. We pair a data-driven program, every block mapped, measured, and recorded, with the judgment that only comes from decades in the field.
Vinedresser started with a love of the work itself. Chris spent years in the rows because farming was what he wanted to do, and doing it well mattered to him. Somewhere along the way he noticed something about the owners he farmed for. They cared deeply about their vineyards, but they couldn't see what was happening on them. So he built a company around both things: farming held to the highest standard, and a record of it so complete that an owner never has to wonder what happened on their ranch, or why. That record became VineOps. Twenty years later, the work is the same, and so is the reason.


Leadership
Owner
Chris Walden owns and operates Vinedresser Vineyard Management. He has spent 20 years farming high-end vineyards across Napa and Sonoma counties, and he still works directly with every client, from the first walk of a property through each harvest.
Chris and his wife Melissa are raising their three daughters in the agricultural community that raised him. For Chris, farming is as much about the next generation as it is about the next vintage: a passion for teaching his daughters the importance of sustainable stewardship of the land.
Own a vineyard, planting one, or evaluating a property in Napa or Sonoma? We'd like to hear about it.