The name reads like a mantra and a wink at once, and the wines inside the bottle deliver on the easy promise: bright, juicy, and made with almost nothing added.
Backstory
Everything is Okay is the project of winemaker Booker Riley, based at a shared production facility in Richmond, California. He works alongside a cluster of like-minded natural winemakers in the same Bay Area space, part of a small Richmond community of producers who pool equipment and ideas.
The Region
Rather than farm a single estate, Riley sources organically grown grapes from vineyards across California. His emphasis is on long-term partnership with growers who know their sites intimately, paying fair prices and treating the fruit with care so each vineyard can speak for itself.
Vineyards and Farming
The grapes are organically farmed. Riley is selective about the growers he buys from, favoring people with deep knowledge of their land, and he is involved in vineyard work himself where he can be.
Winemaking
The house philosophy is zero-zero, or zero added and zero removed: nothing added in the cellar and nothing taken away. Fermentations run on native yeast with little to no added sulfur, yielding fresh, low-intervention wines.
The Wines
The range is deliberately playful and easy to drink, spanning light reds, red blends, sparkling frizzante reds, and skin-contact amber wines, all bottled with minimal handling.
