Ancient Peaks Winery promotes Jessica Arnold to marketing director
Ancient Peaks Winery has promoted Jessica Arnold from senior graphic designer to marketing director, a new leadership position responsible for the California estate winery’s marketing and creative activities.
Expanded marketing role
Ancient Peaks Winery announced the promotion on November 10, 2026. Arnold will manage marketing communications, creative development and digital initiatives, as well as the winery’s broader marketing strategy and its execution. She will also remain closely involved in graphic design.1
Co-owner Doug Filipponi said Arnold’s creativity and knowledge of the Ancient Peaks brand made her suited to the position. Arnold said she plans to develop new ways of communicating the winery’s local heritage, family roots and sense of place in collaboration with its in-house team.1
Design and wine-industry experience
Arnold grew up in Paso Robles wine country and earned a Fine Arts degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. During seven years as Ancient Peaks’ senior graphic designer, she created packaging for the Renegade red blend and the winery’s One Stone sister label.1
Her One Stone work received Best of Show at Wine Business Monthly’s 2026 PACK Design Awards, while her new Renegade label placed first overall in the Best Redesign category at the 2025 edition of the awards.1
Before joining Ancient Peaks, Arnold operated as a freelance graphic designer under the West Creative Studio name, independently managing branding, digital and print assignments from concept through completion. Her earlier wine-hospitality positions included tasting room manager and hospitality director at Baileyana Winery.1
Ancient Peaks and Margarita Vineyard
Doug Filipponi, Karl Wittstrom and Rob Rossi founded Ancient Peaks in 2005. The family-owned estate winery is based in the Santa Margarita Ranch AVA of Paso Robles, and its wines are distributed in 49 US states and internationally.1
Ancient Peaks specializes in wines from the sustainably farmed Margarita Vineyard, the only vineyard estate in the Santa Margarita Ranch AVA. Its portfolio includes Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel and the Oyster Ridge Bordeaux-style blend, along with other wines intended to express the estate.1
Margarita Vineyard lies in the Santa Lucia Mountain Range on California’s Central Coast, 14 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The property has five soil zones—ancient seabed, rocky alluvium, shale, volcanic and granitic soils—formed through the area’s geological history. The winery’s tasting room is in Santa Margarita, and the Ancient Peaks name refers to the peaks surrounding the vineyard.1
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