It is an amazing time: we have somehow survived a year in the plague, made wine in a parking lot, and now have bottled all of our 2020 wines. You cannot visit us yet, but you may purchase and taste the wines.
The Lost Wines of the Scholium Project
The Carpinteria Tasting: June 27, 4-6 pm
The Lost Wines of the Scholium Project
The LA Tasting: July 18, 4 to 5:30 PM
The 2020 Wines of Los Angeles River Wine Company
A Public Tasting
These the wines that we made in Napa in 2018 and 2019 while we were consumed with founding the Los Angeles River Wine Company. I did not give the wines the attention that they deserved in 2018 and 2019, and during the pandemic year of 2020, I alternated between forgetting about them and being afraid of them.
I finally tasted the wines in April of 2021 and they are absolutely brilliant, the best two vintages of wine we have ever made. How strange and unexpected.
Please note that there is a 20% discount on all orders of 12 bottles or more-- mix and match or whole cases.
It is so exciting to offer these wines. Our second vintage. A plague vintage. With 115 degree days in the vineyard, on the crushpad, enveloping the fermentations. We worked with such joy and innocence, almost without equipment, but with so much loving collaboration from a community of friends.
When it was not clear that we could complete harvest, I turned to our legion of supporters and asked them to take a chance and purchase and pay for wine, before some of it had even been harvested. They flocked to us and bought enough wine to allow us to complete everything, and now the fruit is all harvested, the wine has all fermented, and the wines are ready to bottle.
We made 12 wines this year. We are releasing one bottle of each wine to these supporters. One hundred bottles for one hundred allies. We have only enough of all twelve wines to offer twelve more 12-bottle packages. First come.
We are now offering the remaining bottles, one by one.
For years, we have made a few gallons of superb and super-fresh olive oil from olives planted and dry-farmed by the Tenbrinks around
their winery in Suisun Valley. There is something really special about the very dry growing conditions, the careful farming, and the 7 varieties of olives planted by the Tenbrinks.
2020 olio nuovo
in 750 ml bottle. From Tenbrink Farms
new obz 2 bottle shipment 1
new obz 4 bottle shipment 1
new obz 6 bottle shipment 1
new obz 3 bottle shipment 1
