General Psychotic Activity

General Psychotic Activity is what happens when a group of friends in the creative arts decide, mid-pandemic, that they should be making wine.

Backstory

The project is the work of Nick, Justin, Francesca and Laura, a Los Angeles-based group of friends who launched the label during the pandemic, channeling a shared creative energy into bottled form.

The Region

The wines are made in California, drawing on fruit from across the state, including Mourvèdre from Paso Robles.

Vineyards & Farming

They source grapes from sustainable, organic and biodynamic vineyards, keeping a close connection to the land and a focus on clean, high-quality fruit.

Winemaking

Fermentations rely on native yeasts, and the wines are bottled unfined, unfiltered and with no added sulfites, hallmark minimal-intervention natural winemaking.

The Wines

The lineup includes bottlings like the Special Request Red Red, a medium-bodied wine made from 100 percent Paso Robles Mourvèdre, with fresh cherry and raspberry fruit, balanced acidity and soft tannins.

Italian Wine Regions

Valpolicella is versatility in a glass—cherry-bright Valpolicella, velvet Ripasso, and contemplative Amarone, all shaped by...
Etna is energy in a glass: Nerello Mascalese and Carricante channel lava flows, altitude, and...
Barolo is Nebbiolo at its most articulate—perfume and power shaped by Tortonian and Serravallian soils...

French Wine Regions

Savoie, nestled in the heart of the French Alps, represents one of France's most distinctive...
The Rhône Valley, in southeastern France, borders the Alps to the east and the Massif...
Bordeaux, located in southwestern France, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and...

Natural Winemakers

Heydi Bonanini practices heroic viticulture on terraced cliffs above Riomaggiore, producing Cinque Terre whites and the legendary Sciacchetra from rescued indigenous varieties.
Weingut Niklas is a family-run Alto Adige estate in Kaltern where Dieter Solva farms 7 hectares of calcareous mountain soils to produce precise, aromatic whites and structured Lagrein reds that have carried the family name for over 50 years.
A molecular biology graduate turned sparkling-wine cult figure, Michael Cruse founded Cruse Wine Co. in Petaluma to make fresh, serious, distinctly Californian wine, including old-vine Valdiguie.