Prima Materia Tasting Room

Even with the shelter in place order we can still enjoy wine tasting.
Last month, we went to Prima Materia’s tasting room In Oakland.

Prima Materia is a winery in the Lake county, California. 

It is a small wine producer with a focus on the traditional style wine making and its tasting room in Oakland is also small but open for tasting with the outside tasting space.

Their tasting menu comes like this!

Chardonnay
Clean citrus/flower aromas with a little bit of bitterness of citrus zest. A hint of bruised apple. 

The texture is oily like ripe pear.

Rosé
This wine is a blend of Barbera and Aglianico.
Complex aromas of fresh coffee beans, candied rose, liquorice, red cherry and strawberry are supported by good acidity, bitterness of grapefruit and a tiny tannin of dried fruits.

Sangiovese
Freshness of mint and tomato stems, and richness of plum and bitter chocolate.
Well integrated tannin. It is a clean, easy to drink wine.

Negroamaro
Marshmallow, fresh black cherry and black olives.

The richness is blended with well integrated tannin.

Barbera
Sweet aromas of cherry blossom, herbs, cranberry and cherry.

Fruits, acid and tannin are well balanced.

Refosco
Refosco is a red grape from northern Italy.
Rich aromas of sweet tobacco, black cherry, pomegranate, cooked tomatoes and dark chocolate are balanced with a good amount of acidity.

Aglianico
Complex aromas and flavors of spice, herb, coffee, violet, cherry and raspberry.
Tannin is high but well integrated and it's easy to drink especially for Aglianico.


All of them are well-made, easy to drink wines with pleasant finish.
I don’t see any reason not to want to drink them!