OUR STAFF
Carl
Start Date & Position: 8/14/01 - Responsible for what's in the bottle
Bio: Carl is an artistically engineered dilettante with an obsessedly distracted attitude.
Favorite Allegro Wine: The whole reason I'm here ... Cadenza
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Coffee and beer (not necessarily in that order)
Hobbies: Playing guitar
Steve
Start Date & Position: 2004 - Sales Manager
Bio: Steve was born in Stewartstown, PA. He has a BS from Penn State University. Steve lived on the Eastern Shore before moving back to PA in 1997.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Cadenza
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Grey Goose Martini, Bloody Mary
Brenda
Start Date & Position: 2015 - Operations Manager (2006 - joined tasting room staff)
Bio: Former higher education administrator who ditched academia for the romantic winery life. She currently lives on the vineyard property.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Dry Rose
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Bloody Mary or dirty vodka martini
Hobbies: Taking care of business
Dwayne
Start Date & Position: May 2015 - Maintenance, delivery, and everything else warehouse related.
Bio: Dwayne grew up in Drumore PA (southern Lancaster County), and worked as a mechanic for 20 years. He stumbled upon an Allegro Facebook post looking for someone to repair the new bottling line. Dwayne came in to fix it and has been here ever since.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Merlot
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Beer. Lots and lots of beer.
Hobbies: Playing guitar
Libby
Start Date & Position: May 2016 - Tasting room staff
Bio: From Red Lion, Libby grew up about 5 minutes from the winery. She attended York College, and continues to work there full-time as the Director of Event Operations, managing all of their athletic and special events. Already familiar with Allegro wines, Libby started visiting the winery more frequently after her mother (see Amy below) became a Wine Club member.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Cadenza
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: to come
Hobbies: Filling out surveys
Darcy
Start Date & Position: May 2016 - Cellar
Bio: After 8 years working in Special Education, Darcy wanted a change; she took the job at Allegro and has no regrets. She is the youngest of 4 girls, and has lived in York County for 16 years. Darcy has had horses for 10 years, but will admit that she was always "that horse-crazy girl". Music is her zen.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Can't choose just one.
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Properly brewed tea
Hobbies: Horses
Jenn
Start Date & Position: June 2016 - Tasting Room Staff/Inside Sales
Bio: Jenn grew up in Annapolis, MD and worked in pediatrics and orthopedics for years before giving it up to be a stay at home mom of 3.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Anything dry and red
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Coke or Margaritas
Hobbies: Working at Allegro, photography
Amy
Start Date & Position: July 2016 - Tasting Room staff
Bio: Amy was born and raised in Red Lion, just like her parents and grandparents. She has a Bachelor of Music from Susquehanna University as a piano/vocals major. She is happily retired from teaching classroom music for Souther York County school district (39 years!), teaching elementary K- 6, and directing both 5th and 6th grade choirs.
Favorite Allegro Wine: Viognier
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Coffee, tea, water
Hobbies: Reading, traveling, singing and walking.
Amanda
Start Date & Position: 2018 - Cellar Assistant
Bio: Amanda has lived in Red Lion her entire life, and has one older sister. She graduated high school in the top 2% of her class, and completed one semester at Penn State York before realizing that she had no clue what she wanted to do with her life. She applied for the position at Allegro, figuring it was a long shot since she had just turned 19 two months prior. She's been helping us out in the cellar ever since.
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Soda (currently Dr. Pepper or Coke), lemon-flavored iced tea
Hobbies: Listening to music, going to concerts, reading
Victor
Start Date & Position: April 2019 - Philadelphia Sales Representative
Bio: Victor was born & raised in Philadelphia, and currently resides in Harleysville, PA with his wife of 17 years and their twin boys.He has been involved with wine sales since 2007, and has worked for Chaddsford, Karamoor, Majestic W&S, ViVino Selections, and Jonathan Newman.
Favorite Allegro Wine: 2016 Cadenza Vineyard Chardonnay and 2018 Steel Chardonnay
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: Wine, wine, wine...it's all about the wine for me. Currently I have been diving into some of my back vintages of Kosta Brown Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.
Hobbies: My family, going to the NJ shore, all things Philadelphia sports, coaching swimming & soccer, and raising money & awareness for Autism. Both my twin boys are on the spectrum, so this is a focus and passion for me & my family. I work heavily with the Eagles Autism Foundation.
Dave
Start Date & Position: September 2019 - Deliveries, warehouse, processing and maintenance
Bio: Dave was born in southern York County, and has worked as a canoe guide in Canada, bridge construction worker in Kentucky and most recently as a supervisor for an industrial painting contractor in York.
Favorite Allegro Wine: All things Cadenza (and the Allegro dry wines)
Favorite Non-Allegro Beverage: The three B’s: Bourbon, beer and Bloody Mary’s
Hobbies: Bonsai, gardening, baking, reading, music and guitar