Faith Armstrong together with Ken Wornick are Forward Wine & Vine Management, our trusted guides in creating Kashuba wines. True cultivators of fine wines balancing the yearly fluctuations of temperature, moisture and sunlight pre-harvest, and continuing that care post harvest throughout winemaking, aging, and bottling.
Faith Armstrong discovered her interest in winemaking by taking a position in wine promotion, marketing and sales in California. The more she learned about wine, the more her interest in grew. Her leap into production came from spending a day helping out at a winery, she shoveled her first fermentor and was hooked. What followed was a full Regents Scholarship to the University of California at Davis, and a Degree in Viticulture and Enology with Highest Honors in 2006. After graduation, Faith began working for Frank Family Vineyards, where she was soon promoted to Assistant Winemaker. A drive to work more closely with all aspects of the wine business coupled with the demands of a growing family (four children), both contributed to the decision to go into business for herself.
Raised in Massachusetts, Texas, and California, Ken began his career as a geologist for the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco. After graduate business school, Ken pursued a career in various food and beverage roles while studying and working in grapes and wine. As an emerging entrepreneur, Ken was amongst the first to offer private vineyard development services to Silicon Valley clients through the founding of his first company, Post & Trellis Vineyards. Soon thereafter, Ken constructed one of the first commercial urban wineries in the Bay Area, making his client’s wines at the dedicated facility in Redwood City, named La Honda Winery.
Ken sold both companies and moved full time to Sonoma. He returned to building vineyards, farming grapes, and making wine for Sonoma-based client land owners under the Hydeout Sonoma name, and now Forward Wine & Vine.
