Prior to releasing his wine brand, Xander spent over 20 years working on digital music technology with Apple, where he was the co-creator of GarageBand, and contributed to iTunes, iPod and iPhone product development. Xander has been applying the same obsessive design sensibility to his wines, beginning with a tiny production in 2012.  The Maison team has been honored to be a small part of this process of extreme iteration, having blind tasted the XS wines hundreds of times over the years prior to their first commercial release in Japan in 2023, and in California in 2024.  Always tasted alongside world class producers, we often picked Xander’s wines as our favorite.  After years of worldly pinot noir comparisons, we are beyond excited to host a launch party for Xander’s first ever chardonnay.  We’ll be pouring a flight all evening, including several pinots and the brand new chardonnay.