One step into the tasting room and you’re instantly awash in the unmistakable aroma of fine wine aging in French oak barrels. It doesn’t take long after that for you to sense our genuine enthusiasm and passion for wine making. It can’t be disguised or hidden. Where does the passion come from?

Great wine can only come from great fruit. Fortunately, we source great fruit. The grapes we use come from some of the top vineyards in Washington state and the Sierra Foothills in California near Placerville. Long-term contracts enable us to work with grapes from the same rows in the same vineyards year after year.

Our model has been referred to as an urban winery or a boutique winery. In our particular case, it’s a beach winery. We produce very small lots of super-premium wine and every aspect of the wine making process takes place on-site.

It’s probably fair to say that Ocean Beach has never been considered a hotbed for fine wine production. Known more as a laid-back, surfer, beer and burrito town, OB (as the locals call it) is the home to San Diego’s first “beach winery;” Gianni Buonomo Vintners.