Pietri Cellars. Pietri Cellars. VinFuzion from Pietri Cellars | Earthdance Mt. Shasta. :: Women Winemakers of California :: Pamela Pietri. Pamela Pietri Vinfuzion (Winemaker and Owner) Born near the wild ginseng fields of Wisconsin, Pamela was raised by a Corsican country doctor who collected fine wines and cognacs from all over the world. Before she completed her undergraduate degree, Pamela was hired as a staff reporter for New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press, for which she wrote profiles and music reviews before she ventured to New York City.
For more than a decade she wrote for Psychology Today Magazine, the National Lampoon, and New Times Magazine, and was on the staffs of New York Magazine and The Village Voice. In 1997, she earned a master’s degree in Eastern Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego and became a board-certified acupuncturist. She began experimenting with rare botanicals and spirits like bourbon, tequila, and cognac to create potions and elixirs for her clients in Malibu, CA, where she practiced alternative medicine for seven years before becoming involved in winemaking. Short term furnished vacation rental apartments in Paris, France. Mill Valley transplants find magic living in Paris | Marin Magazine. A Marin-Paris connection By Mary Papenfuss In the right light, the shadow of the Eiffel Tower looms like Mount Tamalpais against the green of the Champs de Mars. It’s not so unusual for some Paris residents to be reminded of the Marin mountain while they’re knocking around the French capital.
Take William Martz, former publisher of the English-language Paris Magazine. Paris, Mon Amour Ask Ken Varcoe what brings him from Mill Valley to Paris, and he’ll offer a characteristically California response: “Karma.” Varcoe has a particularly intimate connection to Paris—he married a Parisienne. “We don’t really drink, and my wife’s a great cook—so we don’t go out to eat much here,” he says, sitting in a Montmartre coffee shop that could be a restaurant straight out of Amélie.
Even his Parisian-to-the-bone wife is besotted with Marin and has several favorite haunts: Green Gulch, Muir Beach, Blackie’s Pasture, Sushi Ran and the Buckeye. What’s the first thing he does when he’s back in Mill Valley?