Few labels capture the joy of California natural wine quite like Jumbo Time Wines, whose hand-drawn, almost childlike artwork hides a genuinely thoughtful project underneath.
Backstory
Omar Koukaz and Jonathan Yadegar founded Jumbo Time Wines in Los Angeles in 2020. What began as a friendship and a shared obsession with low-intervention wine grew into a working winery split between Los Angeles and Sonoma. The pair came to wine without formal pedigree, and that outsider energy still drives the project: each new vintage brings fresh experiments alongside the cuvees they choose to refine.
Vineyards & Farming
Jumbo Time does not own vineyards. Instead, the team partners with California growers who farm organically, dry farming and working biodynamically wherever possible. Their guiding belief is that natural wine is defined by farming rather than by any single taste profile, so the search for honestly grown, additive-free fruit comes first.
Winemaking
In the cellar the approach is minimal intervention. Fruit is fermented in individual lots and the final cuvees are assembled through barrel blending, leaving room for the experimentation the duo clearly relish. The wines are made without added yeast, acidification, color correction, or filtration, and with little to no added sulfur.
The Wines
The range is deliberately diverse. Alongside fun skin-contact orange wines and easy chilled reds sit more serious bottlings, from elegant Pinot Noir to bold Syrah, all sharing the same farming and cellar ethos. Cuvees such as Surf's Up, The Gift, and The Breeze rotate through the lineup, each carrying its own character from the brand's playful illustrated universe.
