Luciano
Sangiovese & Malbec
Full of personality and character, just like our son. A three-culture blend that tells our family's story in every glass.
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Rooted in Sage
A family-owned and operated boutique winery.
A journey of passion and love, we grow and produce wines that honor centuries-old traditions. With a renewed approach to natural winemaking, we focus on expressing the true character of the grapes and the terroir, embracing minimal intervention every step of the way.
Discover Our Wines"We didn't come from a wine family. We became one. And that, we think, is exactly the point." Saverio & Carolina Principini
Every bottle tells our story
With care and dedication, we curate each process of the wine-making with love. As natural as it possibly can be — no additives or artificial coloring or any shortcuts of any kind are ever used through the wine making process. We also minimize the use of sulfites.
Our goal is not to artificially create a wine tasting always the same year after year to please the market's need for conformity. Our goal is to bring an experience to the ones who choose our wines, every year evolving, every year telling a different story, same wine making technics, same intentional steps, same grapes, yet a different tale, a new journey, one that will never bore you, one that will always surprise you, and us.
Our production is still less than 2000 bottles per label and each bottle is numbered.
Vermentino
White
Sardinian sunshine at 2,550 feet. Dry, aromatic, mineral-driven, with notes of wild sage and flowers from the hills around our estate.
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Aranciato
Skin Contact · Orange Wine
Fun, fun, fun. Seven days on skin with an incredible natural orange hue. An aperitif unlike anything else we've made.
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Sage, California
The Estate
The Principini estate sits in the hills of Sage, California — a remote, quiet valley in Riverside County at 2,550 feet of elevation (777 meters). The altitude matters: it means cooler nights, slower ripening, and wines with natural freshness and complexity that lower-elevation vineyards have to work hard to achieve.
Varietals that honor our roots: Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Vermentino and Pinot Grigio from Italy and Malbec from Argentina.
Every vine is farmed without pesticides or chemical sprays. Every wine is made with minimal intervention and low dosages of sulfites. Not because it's fashionable, but because it's honest and we believe in the true untamed and unaltered expression of the grapes and of the terroir.
Our estate is blessed with daily winds, coming straight from the ocean, less than 25 linear miles from us, winds so strong that push away naturally pests and illnesses from our vines allowing us to keep an organic regime.
The terroir is a combination of decompose granite and a soil rich in minerals, so rich that our agronomist after seeing the soil analysis said that this ground waited their all existence for vines to be planted in them!
Meet the Family
2,550
Feet Elevation
2,000
Estate Vines
150
Olive Trees
0
Pesticides Used