In 2004, Leah made her way out west to her father’s home state of Oregon to attend a highly coveted wine industry event – Oregon Pinot Camp.  Within hours of her visit in the Willamette Valley, she found a way back to the Pacific Northwest to work where her great-grandparents had settled and farmed.  Her grandfather’s side came to Oregon by way of Denmark and her grandmother’s side from Norway.  Both lines of her family had been farm owners and workers in Scandinavia long before coming to America in the late 1800s.  Both families lived and worked on farms in Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota, prior to Oregon.