Our path to profitability is to sell our natural wines and spirits. Eventually we would like to have a winery in multiple major cities, focused on recycling local food waste into delicious beverages and selling them locally. Natural wine is booming. Spirits are doing very well. Although we want to embrace technology in our winemaking processes and potentially in other ways, we are more of a traditional business than your typical startup. Having a location in the Central Valley already is key though for reducing on farm waste and accruing sugars to ferment into wines and distill into spirits.

Our wines and spirits have been warmly received at several natural wine fairs in The Bay and Los Angeles, including GAY WINE, By The Way, and Wine From Here, where they were covered by John McCarroll of Punch Magazine

“I was particularly entranced by the Châteauneuf-du-Fargosonini, the brainchild of Alejandro Fargosonini, an experimental filmmaker turned outsider winemaker. His whole lineup was thrillingly turbo, but I spent a long time thinking about his first wine, a direct-press grenache aged for two years under flor (which was later recycled to start what he calls a “shitty solera”). Tasting the wine, I was struck by the thought that natural wine hadn’t so much grown up as it had grown out; the energy that used to be directed into making thirst quenchers and party wines has been turned in a bewildering array of directions. All in all, I spent nine hours tasting, and there were maybe three wines I would have considered glou-glou (and they were, of course, delicious).” - John McCarroll, Punch Magazine, “Call it Natural Wines Goth Phase”

We farm 9 acres of grenache grapes at our vineyard in the Central Valley. We have planted 25 new varieties of vitis vinifera grapes, focusing on varieties that are not farmed commercially or are extremely rare in North America. This gives us a connection to European winemaking which we always want to keep a hold of as we move into the future of dealing with food waste and new sources of sugars. We are constantly adding to collection of unique vines from other growers, nurseries and universities. We would like to become a source for unique varieties for other new winemakers in the future. We have collected varieties from Greece, France, Spain, Italy, Georgia, and Croatia. In the future we’d like to plant an area with all native North American varieties of grapes, and have a section for hybrids.