Bob & Marilyn Thaden met on the first day of college at Macalester College way back in 1966.  Inseparable since then, they've gardened, traveled, made wine, gardened, made wine, traveled, made wine, etc. along with raising their two children.

Marilyn chose speech pathology to support her vices of gardening, music, traveling, wine drinking, parenting and community service. Bob spent 30 years as a United Church of Christ pastor in the upper west, and after achieving burnout, chose to pursue a different 'spirit' to uplift people's souls.  Now he spends his summers weeding, training vines, weeding, pruning, weeding some more, and does a few weddings at the vineyard.  He has been a winemaker for over 40 years.