“I’m built like a brick shit house,” proclaims Sarah Holt Mullins. “I’m very strong. I’m able to do the same work a man can do, and I really like being in charge, so I made my way up.”
It’s that candor and salt-of-the-earth quality that makes my interview with Sarah one of the favorites that I’ve done for this S.B. Questionnaire project, which is celebrating its fifth birthday with this week’s column.
She’s the winemaker at Rancho Sisquoc Winery, which has been crafting quality wine for the past 40 years. The winery is part of a 37,000-acre ranch located in northern Santa Barbara County, and produces about 20,000 cases of wine each year from more than 300 acres of grapevines.