[2][3] In 1972, Lynch opened his eponymous wine importing store in Albany, before moving to Berkeley in the 1980s.

[4] Richard Olney introduced Lynch to many French wine growers, including Lucien and Lulu Peyraud, who were then re-establishing the Bandol AOC as a vineyard area.

After noticing that wines imported from Burgundy tasted different than he remembered at the winery, Lynch began experimenting with refrigerated containers and found that the problem was eliminated.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lynch took objection to a regulation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms that required wine bottles to be labeled with the Surgeon General's warning against alcohol consumption but prohibited any countering sentiment about the benefits of moderate wine drinking.

[7] In 2005 he was also awarded France's highest honor given to civilians, the insignia of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.