Newfound

Newfound Wines is a small family-owned winery located in the Sierra Foothills established in 2016 by Matt Naumann and his partner, Audra Chapman. Starting by tearing out the existing vineyard on their remote piece of land in El Dorado County, the idea was to revive the land and nurse it back to health from its conventionally farmed past. Intent on producing wine in the most sustainable way possible, they brought in 200 goats to graze the hillsides and naturally compost the site. A fire safe zone has also been created by lifting the densely forested canopy and cover cropped with a recipe of legumes, clovers and nitrogen fixing green manures. Newfound has come to define Matt and Audra’s farming dream to become first generation grape growers and wine producers, who support other farmers and growers who share their convictions. The very definition of new California, their range is still evolving, but they are currently making various Grenache wines, Old Vine Semillon, Pinot Noir and Carignane, all with subtlety and elegance.