An Artesa Winery Pet: Bodie

Welcome to a new feature of Artesa's blog, a feature on one of our winery pets.

First, some background on Bodie’s wine-loving owner: A local product hailing from St. Helena, Artesa’s Vice President of Finance, Tim O’Leary, is one of the longest employed people at the winery, even when it was known as Codorniu Napa. For twelve and a half years, Tim has been in charge of finance either as controller or in his current position. That places his starting date shortly after Artesa’s first crush in 1997. (The winery was reborn as Artesa at a black-tie dinner celebration on July 24, 1999.)

On August 23, 2001, a Yellow Labrador Retriever named Bodie was born and became a member of the O’Leary family, as well as the Artesa family. As the first “winery pet” featured in our blog, Bodie brings with him a brother, a Black Labrador Retriever named Jake, born last year on the Fourth of July. Jake, incidentally, has been described as Bodie’s favorite toy. When not carousing with Jake, Bodie loves typical dog things such as swimming. Less common is that when Bodie knows he did something wrong, he smiles (which is rare, for the record). Think about that next time you run into a smiling Yellow Lab with a Black Lab trailing not too far behind him.