Rebecca’s background is elementary education and teaching, and between homeschooling and managing the family business somehow keeps a functioning order to the chaos. In 2021, she was diagnosed with severe autoimmune disease, which caused a reevaluation of Rebecca’s and Ryan’s work/life trajectory while gaining meaningful insight and perspective into the things that mattered most to them. As part of her chemotherapy treatment, an unfortunate side effect of the medication was that they could no longer share wine together. Ryan, trying to solve the problem (for better or worse, as many husbands are prone to do), decided to start a small side project focusing on the production of lower-alcohol wines so that they could still enjoy a bottle together without conflicting with Rebecca’s medicine. He called his friend Keith Johnson (Sleight of Hand Cellars and Devium), an expert in low-intervention winemaking, and proposed they develop an early-picked Syrah from a high, northeast-facing slope at WeatherEye. MTN/ART was born. Fast-forward a couple of years…Rebecca was able to make helpful improvements in her treatments, which allowed them to resume their enjoyment of the great wines of the world. Oh, and just to keep things interesting…in 2024 they bought a fixer-upper property on Red Mountain along Sunset Road, licensed the shop as a winery, planted a small Estate vineyard, sold their Richland home, and moved the Johnson Family to wine country.