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Wavy Wines Super Californian 2024

$30.00

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Style: Dry, medium-bodied red that leans toward juicy and fresh rather than structured and tannic; the mix of whole-cluster, destemmed, and direct-pressed lots across seven varieties creates a layered but approachable wine with a candied, soft texture and lively red fruit
Grapes & terroir: Merlot, Barbera, Freisa, Mourvèdre, Sagrantino, Cabernet Franc, and Grenache from Siletto Family Vineyards; organically farmed gravelly alluvial loam soils along Tres Pinos Creek, San Benito County, California; no synthetic inputs
Winemaking: Merlot, Barbera, and Freisa co-fermented as a base (mix of whole-cluster and destemmed); Mourvèdre, Sagrantino, Cabernet Franc, and Grenache direct-pressed to tank and macerated to dryness; all in open-top stainless steel fermenters; twice-daily punchdowns; native yeasts only; unfined, unfiltered; no added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve lightly chilled at 57–60°F; no decanting needed
Pairing: Pizza con salsiccia e friarielli (Italian sausage and broccoli rabe pizza from Naples)
Similar to: Carbonic Gamay from Beaujolais, field-blend reds from Emilia-Romagna, skin-contact Barbera from Piedmont

Wavy Wines Super Californian 2024 is a dry red blend sourced entirely from Siletto Family Vineyards in San Benito County, California, combining Merlot, Barbera, Freisa, Mourvèdre, Sagrantino, Cabernet Franc, and Grenache — all organically farmed on gravelly alluvial loam soils at 500 to 720 feet elevation. Wavy Wines co-ferments whole-cluster and destemmed portions of Merlot, Barbera, and Freisa together in open-top stainless steel fermenters with native yeasts, then direct-presses and macerates the remaining varieties to dryness before blending. Wavy Wines Super Californian 2024 is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no added sulfites. 13% ABV. California.

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East Coast: 5 business days

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If you'd like to receive a refund for a package that was returned to us after FedEx made three delivery attempts, we can do that but we must keep a $20 refund fee; FedEx charges us a lot of money for returns, unfortunately, I can't stress this enough.

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Producer profile

Wavy Wines

Wavy Wines is a Los Angeles-based négociant natural wine project founded in 2019 by Jude Zasadzki and Eliot Kessel. The project began casually — a conversation at Eliot's daughter's birthday party over a table of natural wines from around the world, and a shared question about whether they could make something similar from California's organic vineyards. Their starting point was a skin-contact ramato from Pinot Gris sourced from an organic vineyard in Chico, co-fermented with Chardonnay from Scribe Estate Vineyard. That first wine, and the piquette they made from the same pressed skins, established the working principle Wavy has carried through every vintage since: use what the organics growers have, ferment with native yeasts, waste nothing, and bottle without fining, filtration, or added sulfites.

Zasadzki and Kessel do not own or farm any vineyards. They source from organic growers across Northern and Central California, adapting their blends and winemaking approach to whatever each site and vintage provides. The Super Californian is a wine that reflects this philosophy at its most playful — a multi-variety field blend from Siletto Family Vineyards in San Benito County, described by the winemakers themselves as "a fake reverse Super Tuscan." Where a Super Tuscan traditionally plants French and Bordeaux varieties in Tuscany, the Super Californian assembles Italian varieties — Barbera, Freisa, Sagrantino — alongside French and Rhône varieties, all grown in California on organically farmed, old-vine gravelly loam soils. The result changes slightly with each vintage depending on what Siletto has available and how the season develops.

Across the entire Wavy range — from the Sunshine Orange Wine to the NRG pét-nat, the LS Gris, and the Super Californian — the approach is the same: organic fruit, native yeasts, zero-zero, and wines designed to be drunk with ease and pleasure rather than reverence.

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Wine region

California, United States

San Benito County sits in the central California Coast Ranges, roughly 30 miles inland from the cold, fog-prone waters of Monterey Bay. The county's wine history is older than most California wine drinkers realize — Théophile Vaché planted vines here in 1849, and by the mid-twentieth century the area was home to over 6,000 acres of vineyards managed by the Almaden winery, one of the country's largest producers at the time. When Almaden was sold in 1986, much of its vineyard infrastructure changed hands or fell fallow, leaving behind a patchwork of old vine plantings and gravelly soils that the next generation of growers and winemakers has been rediscovering since.

The county's dominant geological feature for viticulture is the series of alluvial terraces carved by the San Benito River and its tributary, Tres Pinos Creek. These gravelly loam soils, well-drained and low in fertility, produce fruit of genuine concentration at naturally moderate sugar levels. Elevations across the key vineyards range from roughly 500 to over 1,000 feet above sea level, high enough to generate meaningful day-to-night temperature swings that preserve acidity even as fruit ripens fully under the warm afternoon sun.

The morning fog and cool breezes channeled inland from Monterey Bay — which sits just 30 miles to the west across the mountains — moderate summer temperatures significantly, making San Benito considerably cooler than Fresno or the Central Valley despite being at similar latitudes. This combination of cool mornings, warm afternoons, gravelly soils, and a long dry growing season suits a broad range of varieties. Producers like Siletto Family Vineyards have capitalized on this by planting an unusually diverse portfolio of Italian, French, Spanish, and other varieties that perform well in conditions that reward slow, even ripening. San Benito's wine scene remains small and largely under the radar nationally, which has made it an attractive source for the négoce natural wine producers now doing some of their most interesting work with its organically grown fruit.

Frequently asked question

When is my order shipping?

We are doing your best to ship your order in 2-3 business days.

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Do I have to sign upon delivery?

Yes, someone 21 years or older must sign for the package.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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What if I miss a delivery?

Worry not, we have options, but please read carefully.

If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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