Wine: The one guy behind Three Fat Guys

Tony Moll is making his locally sourced wine a full-time job.|

A five-course dinner last Friday at the Red Grape celebrated Tony Moll’s Three Fat Guys wines.

At the Sept. 14 event, Moll interspersed his and winemaker Jim McMahon’s wine banter with his own professional football stories from his days as an offensive lineman in the NFL, where he played from 2006 to 2012 mostly with the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Ravens. The way Moll told his stories left attendees gasping and then laughing. Most of Three Fat Guys grapes are sourced from Sangiacomo and Beckstoffer vineyards and are all hand-picked and hand-sorted.

Moll and the other two “Fat Guys” were drafted together by the Green Bay Packers in 2005 and would go out to dinner after practice and drink enough wine that they realized they liked it. They started Three Fat Guys, and while the other two have gone in different directions, Moll is sticking with it.

He moved back home to Sonoma, married Megan Morphy, whose parents own the Red Grape, and they have three children.

Moll went into mortgage banking and just recently gave that up to focus 100 percent of his time and effort on making and selling Three Fat Guys wines. Threefatguyswines.com.

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