If you like cool wines, fascinating people and stories that inspire you as much as the wines, then come meet and taste with tiny production, heritage grape champion, Daniel Callan on Tuesday, December 1, from 5-7pm. There’s no fee and no schedule – just RSVP to let us know you’re coming and swing by anytime from 5-7pm for a taste of something fizzy and then Daniel’s wines.

It’s been a big year since last time Daniel Callan was here in the shop. He’s doubled the number of wines he makes! Last year and the year before, he only had one wine to show. But with the debut of his first varietal bottling – a 100% old-vine Mataro – he’s now up to two!

Of course, his previous only wine had five or six different grapes in it – old California heritage varietals like Valdiguié, Cinsault, Négrette, Zinfandel and Cabernet Pfeffer. So it might have been just one bottle, but there’s a whole winery of complexity there. As Wine Advocate says in the 94 point rave, "My immediate thought after first running through the 2023 Native Wine of California was, "a bright Syrah dressed like a clean Gamay with a Pinot Noir soul."

Come by the shop anytime between 5-7pm for this relaxed, stand-up, tasting and learn how Daniel became obsessed with old California grapes, where he finds them, and what’s going on in general along California’s Central Coast. A very chill – and delicious – way to kick off December!