"I don't fit in anywhere, I fit in a little everywhere."
Blake Barrios
Blake creates one-of-a-kind, hand-painted glass bottles using DecoColor oil paints. Often collaborating with non-profit foundations, musicians, athletes, and vintners, among others, creating a bottle that will fetch the highest bidding from discerning connoisseurs and art critics alike. Blake has worked with with notable musicians Snoop Dogg, Sir Paul McCartney, Carlos Santana, Lenny Kravitz, and more.
A philanthropist at heart, Blake gifts his artistic talents as an active mentor in the Scars Foundation, founded by Sully Erna of Godsmack. Other notable non profits include the Make a Wish Foundation, Literacy Project Foundation, and Make Yourself Foundation (promoted by the band Incubus) to name just a few.
Blake became an artist because he realized that he always experienced life visually and could conceptualize it through art. Blake and winemaker Jon Keyes continue their work on expanding their collaboration in the world of wine and art as well as in their philanthropy.
Jon Keyes
After studying chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, winemaker Jonathan Keyes landed his first winery job with California's ultimate boutique winery, Sine Qua Non (That year the winery achieved 100 points). He then traveled to Australia, learning the wine business down under with Two Hands Winery in the Barossa Valley, before returning to assume the position of Cellar Master at Napa Valley's Outpost Wines, under the tutelage of 100-point winemaker Thomas Brown creating Schrader. Jon Keyes then went on to making wine with renowned winemaker Mark Herold. Jon brings his style and creativity into no intervention winemaking at Rebellium Wines.