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Explore the stories behind Ojai Mountain wines. Learn about regenerative farming practices, minimal intervention winemaking, native yeast fermentation, and meet the team crafting California's most distinctive estate-grown wines.
Six Years in the Making: Introducing Our 2024 Tempranillo
Ojai Mountain's 2024 Tempranillo, its first standalone bottling, arrives after six years and a total crop loss in 2023. Just 141 cases, aged 19 months in neutral oak, with Rioja-like structure but dar...
Lesia Artymovych • 9 Nov 2026
The Ojai Wine Weekend: A Complete Guide for LA Travelers
Ojai is 90 minutes from Los Angeles and rewards more than a day trip. This guide explains why the region's wines taste the way they do, how a private ...
Lesia Artymovych • 9 Nov 2026
What Happens When You Farm at Extreme Altitude?
At 2,800 feet on Sulphur Mountain, almost everything about growing grapes changes: the light, the nightly temperature drop, the shale underfoot and th...
Lesia Artymovych • 3 Nov 2026
Reading the Rain: Six Seasons on Sulphur Mountain
Six completed rainfall seasons in Upper Ojai show how much can change between one harvest and the next. From approximately 6.5 inches in 2020–2021 to ...
Lesia Artymovych • 3 Nov 2026
Five Vintages, One Mountain: The Estate White Vertical
Five Ojai Mountain Estate White vintages—2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025—show how one vineyard can express itself differently from year to year. Chang...
Lesia Artymovych • 20 Sept 2026
The Scent of the Mountain: Chaparral, Syrah, and Ojai Terroir
Ojai Mountain’s wines can carry aromas that recall the chaparral surrounding the vineyard: sage, dried herbs, pepper, and wildflowers. Science does no...
Lesia Artymovych • 16 Sept 2026
The Ojai Pink Moment: Why the Topa Topa Mountains Glow
Ojai’s Pink Moment is the brief coral, rose, and violet glow that appears on the Topa Topa Mountains around sunset. Warm, low-angle light creates the ...
