Vailia From’s Biography

Short Bio

Winemaker and owner Vailia From draws inspiration from travels and expertise from nearly three decades of experience working harvests, restaurant floors, importer relationships, and brokerages. Working with an ever increasing arsenal of amphorae, concrete, acacia, and French oak, Vailia creates inspired, elegant wines free of stylistic constraints. These are wines of a new world, rooted firmly in the wonder of the old.

Longer Bio

Winemaker and owner Vailia From draws inspiration from travels and expertise from nearly three decades of experience working harvests, restaurant floors, importer relationships, and brokerages. All of her collected knowledge, bold ambitions, and divergent musings—that’s Desparada. Focused on lively Sauvignon Blanc, Bordeaux, and Italian varietal-based wines in and around several amphorae (twelve and counting), concrete, acacia, and French oak. Vailia sources fruit from Desparda’s estate vineyard, Chelle Mountain, and 20+ of the Central Coast’s finest vineyards, an ever increasing arsenal of techniques and trials and a whole lot of spark to create inspired, elegant wines free of stylistic constraints and dogma. These are wines of a new world, rooted firmly in the wonder of the old. "An up and coming star in the Central Coast”, writes Jeb Dunnuck in the Wine Advocate, the wines of Desparada “deliver serious depth and richness while staying pure, classy and very drinkable.”