Steve comes to us via the U.S. Navy and the Federal Government. He spent eight years sailing on nuclear submarines, and then went to work at Mare Island shipyard teaching others how to repair and maintain submarines. He finished at Mare Island Naval Shipyard as the Worker Training Branch manager and was the shipyard expert on nuclear containment procedures. 

When Mare Island was closed, Steve hooked up with Bill Leigon as Bill’s Executive Assistant, and has spent the last five years learning the wine business. “Since I live in Napa, getting involved in the wine industry seemed like a natural when it came time to change careers,” Steve says. “Any job where you get to go out and eat good food and drink good wine as part of the job can’t be all bad. Seriously, I like the fact that Hahn Family Wines is a close knit group where we all have our jobs to do, and we are given the opportunity to those jobs the best way we see fit. It’s a terrific work environment.”

His likes include golf and bridge, although he doesn’t do either of them as much as he’d like, but his love is music. He sings tenor in several Napa choral groups, he has composed several pieces that have been performed by various groups from Sacramento to San Diego, and he plays guitar and does vocals in a Napa band that just cut its first CD. (Steve is the one on the left in the photo above). Steve made his theatrical debut in the fall of 2003 in the Napa Valley Repertory Theatre presentation of the musical "1776".

Steve and his wife, Carol, have been married over 25 years. They have one son, Joshua, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2003, is now the Hahn Family Wines Direct Sales Manager, and who, according to Steve, “Despite all of our best efforts has turned out to be a really nice guy, in my humble, unbiased opinion.”