Malibu's backyard vintners - from the May 7, 2008 Los Angeles Times:
[Jim Palmer is a personal business manager and full-time Malibu resident who planted his Trancas Canyon vineyard in 1997 in the early days of the vineyard boom. "I'd like to produce a cult wine, a wine recognized as ultra-premium," he says. Like Estevez, he takes pride in working his vineyard himself.

"I've had to become a student of this stuff," says Palmer, who spends his spare time with Bob Lindquist and other veteran Santa Barbara area winemakers he considers his mentors. Palmer has persuaded several Los Angeles restaurants -- including Capo, Spago and Craft, as well as the Westwood wine shop Wally's Wines and Spirits -- to offer his Malibu Vineyards wines.]
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-wine7-2008may07,0,6497412,full.story