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.
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.
2019 FTPC-C
kirschenmann ranch
2020 Los Angeles River Wine Company Disco Essence
2020 Los Angeles River Wine Company Gateway Rosé
Gateway Vineyard
2020 Los Angeles River Wine Company Phulax
Gateway Vineyard
2020 Los Angeles River Wine Company Lone Wolf Pet Cemetery
Bob Munoa Ranch
2020 Los Angeles River Wine Company Lone Wolf The Wildlands
Bob Munoa Ranch
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.
Three wines from 2018, achored by The Sylphs
2015 Blowout Rosé
A California Sparkling Wine
We are so honored and excited to offer this oil again this year.
The Tenbrinks planted olives in the field opposite the winery before they built the winery in 2007-- 105 trees, from 7 different cultivars. They had in mind the polyculture of their families in Italy, where the terroir of grape growing always also encouraged the cultivation of olives. I have marveled in the past at the oils of Quintarelli, Cornelissen, Paolo Bea, Occhipinti and Clos Mogador in Priorat. This is the dream of a winemaker in a Mediterranean climate: to be able to offer an oil from an orchard of the same quality as his vineyards.
The harvest this year was very late and very plentiful. We began picking on October 22 and have picked on 3 days already, and anticipate on more pick, from the very spicy Koroneiki olives.
We have always milled the different harvests separately. For the first time ever, we have kept the millings separate and will bottle them separately.
The oil is dense and slightly pearlescent; it has been settled, but is unfined and unfiltered. Its freshness is so powerful right now-- you will want to sip it right away. But it will keep easily for a year or more.
We will offer only 225 bottles of these oils in total.
2021 olio nuovo-- pick 1
in 750 ml bottle. From Tenbrink Family Farms
2021 olio nuovo-- pick 3
in 750 ml bottle. From Tenbrink Family Farms
We have accomplished the daring and difficult Futurist aim of forcing bubbles into still wine. Blowout is all about speed, anticipation, audacity: it is a Sparkling Wine bottled and initially released only months after harvest and fermentation. There was no patience in the making-- or consumption-- of Blowout.
And then-- the labels stopped sticking to the bottles. We could not figure out a solution; in the face of so much more to do, we gave up. And let the unlabeled wine age.
Now, in 2021, we have tasted the wine again and it is delicious. I designed new labels, ones that stuck this time. We now release the wine again.
2015 Blowout Rosé
A California Sparkling Wine
2015 blowout rosé 3 pack
2015 blowout rosé 6 pack
2015 blowout rosé-- a full case!
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
