Kinetic Cellars Winery

We have an unrelenting passion for crafting wines that speak to people’s soul and inspire them to seek new experiences in wine. Yes, we understand that this is quite the undertaking and Sisyphean in its scope; we feel compelled to enrich our customers’ lives through our passion and introduce them to wines from varieties that they may not be familiar. We hope to introduce people to the undiscovered varieties we have come to enjoy as enophiles, and we hope to introduce them to wines of character and wines that have matured and developed their own personalities.

We prefer to march to the beat of our own drummer and believe that the “minimal” interventionalist mentality doesn’t quite suit our winemaker’s actual enological idiosyncrasies. He is more involved with the winemaking process but respects the development processes that the wines need to undergo to “let them grow as individuals”. We like to coin the term that he operates with a mentality of a “thoughtful interventionist” by managing our wines with a level of consistency and thoroughness that is indicative of a professional that understands the craft and yet belies a level restraint to allow the wine to mature and acquire its own personality. We regularly sample the wines through their various stages of their lives and intently scrutinize them so that we can make the best possible decisions for each wine. There are times that he will make determinations to call for minor corrective adjustments so that the wine can be on track to represent us and our exceptionally high standards. This level of intent underscores our winemaker’s passion to only want the best for each and every one of our wines year after year so that our customers get nothing short of an excellent wine in every bottle of Kinetic Cellars’s wine.

The better the grape, the better the foundation. A good bottle of wine literally begins from the ground up.

Our grower is as serious about farming as we are about winemaking, adhering to the Lodi Rules practices for sustainability and quality. That means balancing water conservation, ecosystem balance, biodiversity. Building soil quality, limiting pesticides and herbicides, and insisting on the highest quality standards for grapes.

So not only do you enjoy the special quality of Spanish and Portuguese varieties, in addition to customary French grapes. You also enjoy knowing that generations to come will celebrate at tables of their own.  Because we celebrate the heritage of wine while keeping a careful eye towards its future.

To be fair, the process of fermentation is the same, regardless of what bottle you pluck from the shelf. The only differences are those of time and grape, of attentiveness and care.

Yet those differences are not trivial. They make the difference between a memorable glass and just another ho-hum pour.

We trust the fruit. We do not worry the grape with endless tinkering. We remain thoughtful in how we intervene throughout its fermentation, allowing it to bloom into its fullest glory.

That’s because patience and restraint is as important as the grapes we choose. The results are wines that have been allowed to grow as individuals—not as part of just another homogenized brand. You’ll discover the merits of our approach with your very first glass.