Caleb Foster

About Caleb Foster

I produce wine and education for wine adventurers to experience the great hospitality of Washington wine country. Since 1991, I\'m a 30 year Washington State wine professional. Awards have been showered upon the wines I have made. Recently, the J. Bookwalter READERS Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 & 2019 vintages were listed in the Wine Spectator Magazine\'s Top 100 Most Exciting Wines of 2018 & 2022. Wine Enthusiast place NOTEBOOK red blend among its Top 100 Best Buys of 2019. Owen Bargreen, Decanter Magazine\'s Washington State contributor, placed our 2018 2nd Edition semillon blend on his Top 100 wines of 2020. Wine & Spirits Magazine awarded my Buty winery with Winery of the Year & Wine of the Year awards in 2012 & 2011. Food & Wine magazine & Seattle Magazine naming the Rediviva of the Stones Walla Walla Valley blend \"Wine of the Year\". Top listed in Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Tanzer, Decanter and Food & Wine Pocket Guide. I produced wines for the Herbfarm Restaurant, the 2005,\'08,\'09 Designee Conner Lee Vineyard cabernet franc, and Canlis Restaurant\'s the 2006 & \'09 Peter Canlis syrah Walla Walla Valley. I also developed buty winery until it became the newest of the top 20 best Washington State wineries in Paul Gregutt\'s book - Washington Wines and Wineries : the Essential Guide. My winemaking career started in the Walla Walla Valley in 1991. I joined Rick Small at Woodward Canyon and enjoyed great winemaking there for 8 years. I continued winemaking traveling and consulting with over 10 wineries in Washington State, Marlborough, New Zealand and Stellenbosch, South Africa with brands such as Matua, Jackson Estate, Nautilus, Wairau River, Ch. Ste. Michelle, Glen Fiona, Abeja, Walla Walla Community College, Bookwalter, Quoin Rock. In I created Caleb Foster Wines LLC and producing the Buty and BEAST brands in Walla Walla with my first wife Nina Buty. I planted Rockgarden Vineyard in the Walla Walla Valley Rocks District AVA in 2008 with Zelma Long and Phil Freese\'s guidance. Since 2012 when I turned Buty over to my former partner Nina, I\'ve begun new project\'s in Washington State, including Gunpowder Creek Winery. In 2013, I consulted to Delicato Winery looking for Washington production and produced with Crimson Wine Group the Double Canyon cabernet sauvignons with Will Beightol. I produced with John Bookwalter supporting his great wine and hospitality mission through 2020. Today, I work with Hyatt Vineyards in the Yakima Valley to produce top level wines and offer delightful experiences in the heart of Washington Wine Country.

Experience

1. Consultant & Winemaker Hyatt Vineyards

   Hyatt Vineyards

   Apr 2022 — Present · Zillah, WA, US

   35 year old Estate winery in Rattlesnake Hills of Yakima Valley producing cs annually.

Education

• Choate Rosemary Hall & Whitman College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English & Geology

  1986 — 1991