The Team

Allen Shoup was widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Washington wine industry. He spent 20 years building Château Ste. Michelle and its affiliate wineries, serving as the company’s CEO for 17 of those years before establishing Long Shadows in 2002.

Long Shadows is a continuation of Allen’s on-going commitment to building the reputation of Washington wines. He credited his close friend and mentor Robert Mondavi, who famously conceived the Opus One collaboration, as the guide for his vision. While CEO at Ste. Michelle, Allen initiated joint ventures that brought Tuscany’s Piero Antinori and Germany’s Dr. Ernst Loosen to Washington. He left Ste. Michelle in 2000 to realize his vision of introducing some of the world’s most gifted winemakers to the Columbia Valley. Long Shadows Vintners is the result.

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Wine industry veteran Dane Narbaitz is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with over 30 years experience developing luxury wine brands. As president of Long Shadows, Dane is responsible for developing and managing the winery’s distributor network of fine wine wholesalers in 41 states, overseeing market expansion in the U.S. and internationally, and all aspects of channel management. He also directs Long Shadows’ new product development, packaging design and marketing. Dane joined Long Shadows in 2005 and was appointed president in 2008.

Prior to Long Shadows, Dane served as Northwest Region Manager for Robert Mondavi’s Signature Estates portfolio overseeing such luxury brands as Opus One, Ornellaia and Robert Mondavi Reserve. He has held sales positions at Kendall-Jackson, Western Washington Beverage, and HKA Design in California, one of the wine industry’s leading package design firms.

Cory Brown has served as Long Shadows' CFO since 2016. He brings over 20 years of wine industry finance and operations experience to the winery where he is responsible for Long Shadows’ finance, accounting, human resources, IT, compliance and legal affairs.

Prior to joining Long Shadows, Cory spent 12 years managing finance, operations and eventually the sale of Click Wine Group, a Seattle-based wine import company. Following his tenure at Click, he provided finance and operations consulting services to small and medium sized businesses across many industries. He built his consulting work drawing not only on his experience with Click but also his entrepreneurial know-how honed as the founder and CEO of a natural products manufacturing, wholesale and retail business that he launched and managed at the start of his career.