Crosby’s Cru

While playing for the Green Bay Packers, field goal kicker Mason Crosby saw his life change in many ways. He became a husband to Molly, a father of five, a Super Bowl champion… and just a little bit of a wine snob. With teammates like Charles Woodson—founder of Intercept Wines—and Tony Moll, Jason Spitz, and Darryn Colledge of Three Fat Guys Winery, there was no escaping developing a taste for the good stuff. When the Crosbys made their first trip to Napa with wine shop owners Justin and Christine Rutchik, that preference exploded into a passion for the couple. A tasting at Vineyard 29 with Keith and Holly Emerson fundamentally shifted the way the Crosbys thought about wine. It was a comment Keith made about the relationship between Oregon Pinot Noir and French Burgundy that connected the dots between domestic wines and the global wine scene—leaving the Crosbys hungry (or, ahem, thirsty) for more. The two couples kept in touch. A few years later, a video of Keith kicking