Our limited-production wines are sustainably-farmed, hand-crafted and ready to be shared. A boutique winery built on friendship, trust, and more than 30 years of family winemaking experience, Smith Devereux produces
highly-acclaimed, sustainably-farmed, limited-production wines. We meticulously farm our sustainable vineyards year after year to achieve consistency, quality, complexity and accessibility from all of the wines in our award-winning portfolio. We're proud of all our high scores and gold medals but we're far prouder that our wines get to be a part of so many lives and so many great stories. Every bottle tells a story. We hope that our wines will become a part of yours. Their first wine, Verse & Chorus was selected by Whole Foods as a Top 10 Holiday Pick and Wine Club Selection, and won Best in Class and a Gold Medal at the West Coast Wine Competition. On the heels of this success, Smith Devereux launched critically acclaimed brands: Weather (2x Gold Medal Winner), Hanaiali'i (2x Double Gold, Best in Class, West Coast Wine Competition and 90pts Wine Spectator) and Dennen (91pts Wine Spectator) as well as the flagship Smith Devereux line of wines. Ian Devereux White (Co-Founder | Partner)
Ian started his career as the Wine Country Director for 7x7 Magazine. He launched and authored 7x7’s dedicated Wine Country page, "Wine Insider Blog” and developed multi-platform marketing campaigns for over 200 wineries. In 2014 he became the Wine Country Director for Modern Luxury’s San Francisco Magazine, and currently contributes to a series of wine-related consumer and industry media and teaches wine writing classes, speaks at industry events and judges wine competitions. Ian co-founded J.W. Thomas with John Truchard to utilize their unique balance of strengths in winemaking, sales, marketing, and media. They specialize in the creation, execution and support of wine brands with influential partners who genuinely care about, and want to contribute directly to, the success of great wines. He sponsors and hosts celebrated events, including Live in the Vineyard and the Napa Valley Film Festival and supports a slew of local causes including the International Wine and Food Society, Napa Humaine, and Napa Library Foundation. Steve Smith (Partner)
Steve has 17 years of experience in the music business, focusing on A&R, artist management and strategic partnerships. He has worked with likes of John Mayer, Train, Five for Fighting, Mat Kearney, Andrew McMahon, and The Fray. Steve's pivotal role in the successful launch of Verse & Chorus Napa Valley Red Wine fortified his knowledge and love of wine, and allowed him to bring his expertise in strategic brand development, relationship management, and partnership formation to the wine industry. After this national success, he joined The JW Thomas Wines as a Partner. Steve also serves as Board President of the Dear Jack Foundation, on the Brain Trust for Chicago Ideas Week, and is an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University. John Anthony Truchard (Co-Founder / Board Member)
John was raised in a grape growing family. His parents, Tony and JoAnn Truchard, planted their first twenty acres of grapes in Los Carneros in 1974 when John was two years old. Over the next sixteen years, John experienced all stages of vineyard development, including acquisition, land preparation, planting, management, and sale of fruit and finished wines. John finished his studies at the University of California, Davis and started Vinewerkes, a small vineyard management business, and for several years focused on caring for other people’s vineyards. In 1997, he planted his own vineyards, and he and his wife, Michele, started the John Anthony Vineyards wine brand in 2003, the first of ten sell-out seasons. Vinewerkes now manages more than 26 vineyards in Napa Valley, and John Anthony Vineyards produces about 5,000 cases of wine. John's other brands, Jam and Butter, are now distributed in over 35 states (800,000 cases+), but he maintains strict control of his family business, vineyards and winemaking processes.
