The Natural Process Alliance was created under the one basic tenet of thinking downstream.
We believe that expressive soil is sacred, responsible farming is a requirement and natural winemaking is the only option. In the creation of wine, there are innumerable natural processes that are elegant in their simplicity and astonishing in their effectiveness. Our role is but one of these processes and is no more significant than any other. We have joined a natural alliance that has been ignored for far too long.
This website will be an ever changing forum designed to give you a perspective on the people, places, and philosophies that affect us and subsequently ripple through this Natural Process Alliance.
Hand Farming.
Wherever and whenever possible we hand farm instead of using machinery. Hand hoes, shovels, machetes and callouses get the work done
Native Cover Crops.
Vines and cover crops have a symbiotic relationship with each other. Attracting beneficial insect, controlling erosion, breaking up, aerating and fixing nitrogen into the soil.
Natural Winemaking
We strive to allow the character of the location and vintage shine. Our annual goal is to have a label that reads;
Ingredients: grapes.
Sulfur is hesitantly used only when absolutely necessary and in very small quantities
We will never use: commercial yeast or bacteria, enzymes, chemical or natural additives, animal byproducts, fining agents, filtration.
Packaging and distribution
Our stainless steel bottles are filled and delivered to our partners regularly while the empties are returned to the winery for reuse..
Our wines are intended for the San Francisco Bay Area and all points within 100 miles of the winery.