SEAN GARVEY,   Communications & Production Director

As Communications and Production Director for Flora Springs, Sean Garvey ensures that the winery’s mission to make a positive impact on the world through wine is heard and understood by all staff members of the winery, vineyards and tasting room. “It’s important to us that we remain aware of all aspects of what we do as a family-owned and operated winery,” says Sean. That means everything from leading winery tours and assisting the sales team in the field, to pitching in at harvest. He’s also a musician who just finished recording his second album in Nashville, Tennessee, and he has nothing but enthusiasm and fondness for Flora Springs—the thriving winery was his childhood home, and the tasting room is where, shortly after college, he met his wife, Lindsay.

“Flora Springs is magic,” says Sean. “It’s been a real blessing to grow up here and now get to work here to ensure that magic lives on,” he adds. Typically soft-spoken, Sean lights up when asked to talk about the winery’s namesake, his grandmother Flora. “This winery is as much hers as it is ours,” Sean says of Flora, “and it’s important to me that her spirit—of curiosity, of innovation, of sharing stories over the dinner table with a great glass of wine—continues to live on at Flora Springs.”

While studying for his degree in International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Sean took the opportunity to spend a year abroad in the Basque region of Spain. It was there that the local tradition of families and friends gathering at Sidrerias—centers of both gastronomy and community—brought home the importance of food and wine in making connections with people. The Flora Springs Summer Lunch Series, where intimate groups of 20 people are invited to spend an afternoon with the Komes-Garvey family, sharing stories and wines over lunch, was in part inspired by that spirit: “If we can continue to give our customers a sense of history and joy, and continue to spread it to more people through our wines, I think we’ve succeeded,” he says.

Sean formerly managed sales for Flora Springs on the east coast. In his new role as Communications and Production Director, he works to create a seamless synergy between Flora Springs’ vineyards, winery and team in the sales field.

In his free time, Sean can be heard telling stories of his own, often with a guitar in hand. He explains that, inspired by his grandfather Jim Garvey’s stories, and by other characters that have passed through his life, his songs are probably more at home in a dive bar than at a winemaker dinner. “It keeps me whole,” he laughs. As does his wife Lindsay, who besides managing her own successful photography business, Lindsay Garvey Photography, is also from a winemaking family—her parents own and operate Buehler Vineyards in St. Helena. And that leaves plenty of reason for this Napa Valley legacy to continue.