Your Personal Sommelier: The Lodge at Sonoma

Christopher Sawyer is the sommelier-in- residence at the Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar at the Lodge at Sonoma boutique hotel in this quaint town.

But when he’s not working there, he’s the personal sommelier for such Bay Area luminaries as the family of Gordon Getty (oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea) in San Francisco — relatives to John Getty of The Getty Center in LA; and John Lassiter, Oscar-winning director, creative genius behind the first major studio’s digital animation and co-founder of Pixar. Read more at SFGate.com.