Kenny Likitprakong Makes The Leap From Skateboard To Vineyard

Kenny Likitprakong exudes the American free spirit, idealizing Woody Guthrie and the iconography of the hobo. It is best witnessed in the two passions - skateboarding and snowboarding - that he picked up by high school, when he spent all his free time careening down slopes and half-pipes. Yet being a winemaker was his last choice as a profession, a fallback after most other paths - doctor, filmmaker, professional skateboarder - had been knocked out.

Clearly, Likitprakong lives to take risks. He likes to think of himself as making wines for other skateboarders. "I want to run my wine company like a skateboard company," he says, without the sort of corporate values that strip wine of its individuality to make it work on the mass market.

Complete article here. Check out Kenny's Hobo Wine Company website.