Adam S. McHugh

Adam McHugh is a wine tour guide, sommelier, Certified Specialist of Wine, and happy resident of the Santa Ynez Valley. He has written for Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, The New Wine Review, and Edible Magazine, among other national and local publications.

He is the author of Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead, which tells the story of how he shifted from hospice chaplain and grief counselor in Los Angeles to wine tour guide and sommelier in the Santa Ynez Valley. Along with his wife Kate, he is the co-author of the children's book Ferd and the Magic Hat: A Solvang Christmas Story, releasing in November 2025.

While serving as a hospice chaplain, he wrote The Listening Life and Introverts in the Church. He was featured in Susan Cain's bestseller Quiet and wrote about listening and introversion in The Washington Post and Psychology Today, among many other places.

Find Adam on Instagram @adammchughwine or on Substack @adammchugh