Genae’s favorite wines include: pét-nats, orange wines (particularly from Georgia and Slovenia), and a good Beaujolais. She is a long-time Lafayette resident, small business owner, and parent. Outside of operating the wine shop, she also runs a communications consulting agency specializing in global Indigenous-led conservation. She’s a proud farmer’s-daughter from the Western Slope, and mom to three pretty cool kids who all attend Lafayette schools. (Thank her daughter Finley for the delightful, local kombucha offerings in the fridge!)

Doug’s favorite wine varieties include: Nebbiolo, Gamay and Chenin Blanc. His favorite wine regions include Northern Rhône, Mosel, Piedmont, and the Willamette Valey. He is a recent transplant from the Pacific Northwest, where he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from fifteen years of opening and managing bars and restaurants in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. In addition to co-owning Public Wine, Doug is also a woodworker by trade — he previously ran Plank and Grain Seattle, which specializes in custom furniture made out of reclaimed materials. We are proud to have brought a touch of that work to the Public Wine space: all of our wine racks and display boxes were custom-built by Doug, and our retail counter and all of the tables you see have been crafted out of reclaimed douglas fir that was brought from Washington state this past summer.