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28 Feb

Posted at 23:08h in 2025 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1711320642741{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""] Flowers & Cheese [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook-f" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564313968260" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/flowers_cheese" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]9904 Canoga Ave, Chatsworth, CA flowersandcheese.com Region: Los Angeles County Owners: Antonio & Michelle Brunetti Winemaker: Antonio Brunetti About: We are  a Los Angeles winery making wine with grapes grown in Los Angeles county and other places in SoCal. Native fermentation Wine/Merry/Story-Making in a warehouse. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Moscato What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? Tasting a Palomino made by another winemaker/making my pet-nat Moscato from Ramona Valley. What do you love most about the undiscovered grapes? The possibilities in California never end![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930735254{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3300" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1732158322541{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;border: 0px initial !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1732158334851{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;border: 0px initial !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3297" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][vc_single_image image="3298" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][vc_single_image image="3299" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

01 May

Posted at 06:06h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] Fuil Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/fuilwines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/fuilwines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]1330 Flynn Rd., Unit E, Camarillo, CA 91344 www.fuilwines.com Region: Camarillo, CA Owner: Matt and Carolina Espiro Jaeger Winemaker: Matt Espiro Jaeger About: Boutique winery using fruit from the Santa Ynez Valley to combine New World flavors with Old World structure. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Viognier What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? Not my first, but the revelatory one. I'd largely written off Viognier as flabby and overly sweet in my 20s, then I had a Viognier that was crisp, complex, and still full of fruit and flower from Demetria Estate in the Santa Ynez Valley AVA. That started me on my journey to find and enjoy cool-weather wine in general, and is why Viognier was the first wine I made in my own winery. What do you love most about the undiscovered grapes? They're not forgotten! They're usually part of popular Old World blends, but we in the USA have been so conditioned to look for varietal over place, that people don't recognize them. As an example: I've had people ask me...

28 Feb

Posted at 23:12h in 2025 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1711320642741{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""] Full Tilt Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/fulltiltwine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]3359 Fernside Blvd, Alameda, CA 94501 fulltiltwines.com Region: Mendocino County Owner: Craig Sutphin Winemaker: Craig Sutphin About: Full Tilt Wines started as an experiment to see how far The Fukuoka Philosophy of “do nothing” farming could be applied to the entire natural winemaking process. The goal: create charming and delicious wines from climate-ready Mediterranean grapes in ecologically responsible, closed-loop farm. Nothing is added or taken away in the vineyard or the winery, ever. We call it zero-zero-zero. You’ll call it horizon expanding. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Frappato What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? I was relatively young and new to wine, and I purchased a bottle of 100% Negrette from Fronton, made by two female winemakers. I had no idea what Fronton was or who they were, but my wife and I decanted the wine, immediately smelled salt air and lavender fields, and sensed the blistering summer heat. And with one sip, the horizon opened, and I knew there was more above heaven and earth than are dreamt of in all our philosophies. It was...

08 Mar

Posted at 23:24h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] Guthrie Family Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/guthriefamilywines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/GuthrieFamilyWines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]574 Este Madera Drive, Sonoma, CA 95476 www.guthriefamilywines.com Region: Sonoma, California Owner: Blair & Caroline Guthrie Winemaker: Blair Guthrie About: Crafting low-intervention wines from responsibly farmed grapes. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Grenache Blanc What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? In Australia, I came across Arneis and was lucky enough to get my hands on it and make it! What do you love most about the undiscovered grapes? It's like walking the forgotten path. I love their history but also their originality in today's wine world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930735254{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="866" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709947962016{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="865" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709947968535{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="864" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_single_image image="867" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

13 Mar

Posted at 04:24h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1710304104461{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;border: 0px initial !important;}"][vc_column_text] J. Brix Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www,facebook.com/jbrixwine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/jbrixwine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text]298 Enterprise St., Suite D, Escondido CA 92029 www.jbrix.com Region: San Diego County Owners/Winemakers: Emily Towe & Jody Brix Towe About: Emily and Jody Brix Towe started J. Brix Wines in 2009 with three barrels in their two-car garage. Since then, as a two-person winemaking team, they have grown the winery into a small but mighty standard-bearer for the minimal-intervention California wine movement. Working out of a warehouse facility in Escondido since 2013, they make as many as 16 different wines per year. They source impeccable fruit from incredible vineyards all over the Golden State, focusing on Santa Barbara (where they learned to make wine) and San Diego (where they live). Their motto, in winemaking and life: ONLY LOVE. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? It's impossible to pick a favorite grape, but we can say our favorite *fermentation* is always the Counoise – it's like a strawberry-scented pink-and-purple-tie-dye foam party! What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? We worked with Grenache for our first vintage in 2009. What do you love...

14 Mar

Posted at 16:47h in 2025 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1711320642741{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""] Kareen Wine Company [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/kareenwine.com" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/kareenwine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]23400 Upton Road, Plymouth, CA 95669 www.kareenwine.com Region: Sierra Foothills (Shenandoah Valley AVA) Owner: Rose, Susan, Greekor, Greg Nemet Winemaker: Greekor Nemet About: Family winery making low intervention wines from organic vineyards and farming 5 acres of our own estate grapes in the Sierra foothills. Queer woman owned of Armenian heritage. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Areni - an Armenian indigenous grape What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? My first experience was making our 2013 Malbec in the garage. Never looked back since. What do you love most about the undiscovered grapes? These grapes bring diversity to the palate, the wine scene, and the overall gastronomic experience. These grapes punch through the monotony of the Cab, Zin, Chard trifecta.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930735254{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3373" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][vc_single_image image="3375" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3376" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1728854322434{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3377" img_size="full" css="" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1728854330510{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="3379" img_size="full" css=""...

09 Mar

Posted at 17:21h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] L.A. Lepiane Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/lepianewines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/la_lepianewines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text]1480 Count Fleet St., Santa Barbara, CA www.lepianewines.com Region: Santa Barbara County Owner/Winemaker: Alison Thomson About: Founded in 1935 by Luigi A. Lepiane, and re-established by his great-granddaughter in 2013, L.A. Lepiane Wines focuses on small lots of unexpected Italian varieties. Alison Thomson crafts unique wines, using traditional techniques, natural fermentations and lots of time. Her wines reflect true character of the varieties translated in California's soil and sun. What is your favorite forgotten grape? Nebbiolo What was your first experience with a forgotten grape? I worked my first harvest for Ettore Germano in Barolo, Italy. What do you love most about the forgotten grapes? I love variety and a good story. Introducing consumers to less known grape varieties expands their wine drinking horizons to new regions, flavors, and aromas. Variety is the spice of life.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1363" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1710492078419{padding: 10px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1361" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1367" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709935363058{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1365" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px...

08 Mar

Posted at 23:44h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] Lindquist Family Wines [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/VerdadandLindquistFamilyWines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/verdadlindquistfamilywines" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]4665 Santa Maria Mesa Rd, Santa Maria, CA 93454 verdadandlindquistfamilywines.com Region: Santa Maria Valley Owners/Winemakers: Bob Lindquist and Louisa Sawyer Lindquist About: We make a number of forgotten grapes from cool climate vineyards on the Central Coast. What is your favorite undiscovered grape? Marsanne What was your first experience with an undiscovered grape? Probably my first experience would have been when I was in college with Wente Grey Riesling, which is Trousseau Gris.  As a winemaker, the first forgotten grape that I made was a 1987 Marsanne, which I still make today. What do you love most about the undiscovered grapes? There is so much diversity in flavors, aromas and character…and they can often be better values.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930735254{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="874" img_size="165x590" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="869" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709949324112{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="870" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="871" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1709949324112{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="873"...

22 Mar

Posted at 06:54h in 2024 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] Lodi Wine [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/LodiWine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/lodi_wine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text]2545 West Turner Road, Lodi, CA, 95242 www.lodiwine.com Region: Lodi, CA About: Perfectly situated 90 miles east of San Francisco, Lodi’s Mediterranean climate and unique soils allow its growers to cultivate more than 125 winegrape varieties, cementing the historic winegrowing region as the unrivaled producer of “forgotten grapes." What do you love most about the forgotten grapes? The forgotten grapes add a point of difference between Lodi and other American winegrowing regions and diversify the region’s portfolio of high quality wines.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930735254{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1545" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1544" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1709935363058{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1548" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1709935371833{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1547" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1709935378038{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1551" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1709935356040{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="1556" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

14 Mar

Posted at 16:57h in 2025 Wineries, Uncategorized, Wineries

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1709930727903{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""] Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards and Toccata Winery [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/LucasLewellenVineyards?mibextid=wwXIfr" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/lucaslewellen?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text css=""]95 Los Padres #1, Buellton, CA 93427 www.llwine.com Region: Santa Maria Valley Owners: Louis Lucas and Mike Lewellen Winemaker: Megan McGrath Gates About: Louis Lucas, a third-generation grape grower, and Superior Court Judge Royce Lewellen met in 1975 through the Santa Maria Wine & Food Society. Louis was a well- respected grower who had been supplying premium wine grapes for reputable Napa and Sonoma wineries for decades. Royce Lewellen was a passionate wine enthusiast with a vision for the future of the Santa Barbara County wine industry. Over the next twenty-five years, the Lucas and Lewellen families would grow in a deep friendship that would serve as the foundation for Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards, a Solvang, California based winery with four hundred estate acres situated among three of Santa Barbara County’s separate and distinct climate zones, three major wine labels, two popular tasting rooms in downtown Solvang, and a state of the art winery. Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards has a distributor presence in 25 states and...