Own-Rooted Olmstead Wine Co.

For the 15th installment of Own-Rooted, we spent some time talking with Oregonian winemaker Joe Swick. Joe is a prolific and distinctive winemaker with a house-style that is recognizable and dynamic. Although his high vitality wines share similarities with Californian naturalists, Joe is located in a much more conservative wine region. He stands apart not only in location but in history, having begun his journey firmly entrenched in the high octane, Parker-approved power wines of ...

Our guest is Bianka Schmitt and with her husband Daniel she runs Weingut Schmitt in Rheinhessen and theirs are some of my all time favorite wines. For me, the most important prerequisite for greatness is a sense of life force. The wine must possess an animated quality and the Schmitt wines are positively teaming with life. I met Bianka in a dingy wineshop basement years ago and instantly her presence lit the place up and I understood where all that energy had come fromFor mo...

Hey all and welcome to own rooted brought to you by Olmstead Wine co. I’m your host Max and our guests today are Danielle Shehab and Matthew Rorick of Forlorn Hope located in the Sierra foothills. We started by talking about glass bottle pricing and packaging. It really doesn’t really sound like the world’s most thrilling topic but these two are such frank and hilarious people that a heroically boring subject turned out to be a really good time. It was a conversation f...

Our guest is Annamária Réka Koncz, located in Barabás, North Eastern Hungary. Although Annamária is producing some astounding wines, she’s relatively unknown. I first tasted her Blaufrankisch ‘A Change of Heart’ when I was visiting friends and I was so deeply affected I fell entirely out of the conversation. When I came back to my senses I had to know more about what she was doing but I couldn’t find much information and I thought ‘I can do something about that!’For mo...

Our guest is Andres Carull (Finca Casa Balaguer) from Alicante Spain. Winemaking isn’t the kind of gig you can pursue casually, it’s a holistic enterprise and the enormity of the thing can be both hypnotic and thrilling. For Andres and his wife Marta, wine is more than a career it is a sacred calling around which their whole world revolves and after talking with Andres, my mind was lit up and my hopes rekindled.For more content you can follow us on Instragram @olmstead wine and c...