Pat Henderson
Senior Winemaker, Kenwood Vineyards
Winemaking Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College
Author About Wine

A veteran of more than 25 vintages in the wine business Pat Henderson is currently Senior Winemaker at Kenwood Vineyards in the Sonoma Valley. In addition to his work at Kenwood, he is also a winemaking instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College where he has taught since 1991. A graduate of the Viticulture and Enology program at the University of California at Davis Pat supplemented his formal education by working at five different wineries while he was going to school. After graduation he worked in both the Napa and Sonoma valleys before taking his first position as head winemaker at Hedges Cellars in Washington State in 1995. After returning from the Northwest he became winemaker at Valley of the Moon winery where he work for six years before returning to Kenwood Vineyards where he previously served as enologist 10 years before. Pat is also a member of The American Society for Enology and Viticulture as well as the Society of Wine Educators and has recently co-authored the book About Wine; a textbook on wine for culinary students.