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.

The pulling of the cork, the bouquet of something surprising. Delight in the first savoring of that which is completely new.

If you truly love wine, you love discovery. Which means you’ll love the experience we deliver in every bottle. It’s no accident, but the product of intentional wine making, a philosophy brought forth through the alchemy of passion and knowledge.

That’s why we choose varieties that are both distinctive and uncommon, for an experience that is distinctive and uncommon. Those are the fruits of bravery, of choosing a completely different path.

Our grower fastidiously adheres to the Lodi Rules farming practices. These rules specifically involve growers in the Lodi AVA but have actually set the tone to the larger movement of sustainable farming practices in grape growing so that we can continue to enjoy wine for generations to come. They involve fundamental aspects to agriculture such as water conservation, ecosystem balance, encouraging biodiversity, building soil quality, limiting pesticides and herbicides, and maintaining high quality standards for their grapes. He has been growing a variety of grapes for decades and has taken it upon himself to demonstrate the merits of the Spanish and Portuguese varieties in addition to the French grapes that people more easily recognize. These grapes are grown just north of the small town of Galt which is about an half hour south of Sacramento. The grower’s ranches are located in the Alta Mesa AVA which is one of the seven sub-AVAs (American Viticultural Area) inside the greater Lodi AVA.

When choosing a wine, you’ll find thousands of bottles on the shelf. Yet their labels all read remarkably the same. The same grapes, the same craft, the same approach.

Kinetic is a young cellar, putting fresh energy into an old and distinguished craft. Not just as an artisanal craft winery, but offering a new experience with every bottle and every glass. For we venerate the neglected fruit of Iberia and the Mediterranean, making them the foundation of everything we produce.

So while we adhere to the traditions of winemaking, we revive what has been forgotten. And awaken your palate to new possibilities at the very same time.