Discover: Gearhead

Meet Craig West, founder of Gearhead Wines.  Craig was a fisherman and a baker for Acme Bread, but then he met Noel Diaz of Purity Wines in Richmond, CA.  One fateful day, Noel invited Craig to step into an open-top fermenter to tread grapes one evening, an experience that ignited Craig's passion for winemaking. On the spot he decided that this was his calling and pivoted to wine, crafting his first vintage that same year in his garage while keeping his day jobs.   Now he makes tiny lots of wine from organic farming, all foot tread, many with carbonic maceration, and all sans added sulfur.  Craig is scrappy like most of the new natty crew in California, and searches high and low for organic fruit to purchase.  His wines are joyful experiments, as natural as they come but always clean and extremely drinkable.  Explore Gearhead Wines with these three unique bottles:

2023 Gearhead Princess Agent Carbonic Pet'Nat
2023 Gearhead Princess Syrah Pet’Nat

2023 Gearhead 'Squink' Carignan