Alquimista Cellars

Known throughout the wine world as a “vine whisperer,” “cellar magician,” and tireless coaxer and protector of his handcrafted wines, Greg La Follette bears the bona fides of the alchemist. A former seminarian and biochemist with degrees in Plant Biology and Chemistry, he was an early AIDS researcher at the University of California San Francisco before earning his masters degree in Food Science and Technology at the University of California Da...

Mes Filles Vineyard

Greg began working with growers Rick and Diane DuNah in 1998, supervising viticulture to his own specifications on their 10-acre site planted above the fog line on a crown of a hill above southwest Sebastopol. The vines are hosted in Goldridge soil, a fine sandy loam left from an inland sea that flowed into the Pacific more than 2 million years ago. Goldridge soil is prized for its excellent drainage and lack of challeng...

In the true Burgundian sense vignerons marry grapevines to the soil. They work in communion with nature to raise enfants in the spirituality infused ecosystem of terroir, hoping to produce wildly diverse complex wines, true to their essence. Our goal at Alquimista is to craft wines that distinguish themselves by their brilliance, their balance, their velvety texture, and their aromas that convey their origins. We follow the path of those farme...