After graduating from TCU in 2000 Chelsea moved to New York for a career in the fashion industry. Great Manhattan restaurants and wine shipments from her parents in Sonoma County soon had her thinking  more and more about the wine business.   After some time spent working in Aspen, Colorado and hanging out with some chef friends, she was more than ready to relocate to Sonoma County and help her parents launch the family's new wine, Sanglier.

While working through legal and compliance issues related to setting up Sanglier, Chelsea interned with her father's vineyard management company and learned first hand the importance of vineyard location and farming techniques required for great fruit. She also worked at Ridge Vineyard's Lytton Springs tasting room and helped crush Sanglier ‘s 2007 vintage.

Chelsea has completed wine tasting and wine business classes at UC Davis and Santa Rosa College, but will tell you, "You can go to all the tasting classes you want, but a regular seat at my mother's table and routine trips to my father's cellar are a lot more fun and far more insightful into the romance and mystery of wine and food."