Paul Draper , the now celebrated vintner who arrived at Ridge shortly before McCloskey , recalls that Charlie Rosen -- one of the winery 's founders and then head of artificial intelligence at the Stanford Research Institute -- considered McCloskey a genius , and Maynard Amerine , a noted U.C . Davis professor who helped to classify California 's wine regions by climate , suggested that McCloskey get a doctorate at Davis with the aim of joining the faculty .