Our People

Winemaker/ Proprietor Norm Yost has over 40 years in the industry, over half in Santa Barbara County.

Kate Griffith has been Chief Philosopher and Proprietor at Flying Goat since 2010.

Cooper is our official greeter and top salesman in the tasting room. After his birth in 2013, he was quickly nicknamed the "pinot puppy" in the local media. He is very vocal and can convince just about anyon...

Julie Schierbeek has been a Flying Goat Cellars wine club member since Dec. 2021. She started working in the tasting room in Aug. 2022, and has been our saving grace ever since. Norm and I now have some fre...

I invite you to meet our Tasting Room Ambassador Faye Walker, who had been a Wine Club member for many years when she joined our team in March 2023. Faye has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCSB and loves to geek ...

Dale Barba joined our team to work in the cellar in 2024. With the anticipated departure of our Cellar Master André Baltazar, Dale was trained by André and quickly promoted to Norm's right hand man. Dale fou...