Prima Materia

History

Prima Materia is the product of two decades spent working in vineyards, wineries, and cooking in restaurant kitchens that ranged from Michelin starred to hamburger (and fried chicken) consulting. We planted most of our grapes at 1,450' of elevation in Lake County's red volcanic soils, and every bottle hopes to capture a distinctive, Old-World inflected voice in harmony with California's vast and evolving wine history. The wines are crafted in criminally small batches of two to ten barrels each, producing 1,200-1,500 cases per year. The winemaking and grape-growing are intensively hands-on, using stems and time, gravity and buckets, rather than fancy, impersonal machinery or mechanized processes. Prima Materia's wines are unsulfured for much of their lives, allowing them to evolve as living things and new oak is rarely used. The wines are unfined, unfiltered, hand harvested, and hand bottled, but clean, stable and ready for long aging.

Specialties

Outdoor wine tasting in Oakland! Choose any five wines to try, and the tasting is free if purchasing two bottles!