Ecologically Delicious Wine
Home of Crenshaw Cru - A Perennial Winegarden In South Los Angeles
Centralas is a Los Angeles-based, ecologically focused winery using delicious wine to connect you to local farming that improves the environment.
What’s an Ecological Winery?
It means we make wine to tell the story of the land and its agriculture.
It means we make every business and winemaking decision to protect or benefit the environment and our community.
It means that when you buy our wine you make these decisions possible.
It means that our ecosystem rewards you with delicious wine as a way of saying,
“Thanks for caring!”
A vision of diversity.
We envision wine as a cultivation of local abundance, showcasing fruits and other ingredients that flourish around the winery (not just French grapes). Wine crafted from a rich variety of locally adapted and indigenous ingredients promotes biodiversity and cultural diversity, celebrates uniqueness, and promotes an ecological approach to agriculture.
Be part of the solution.
Small Footprint.
We make wine from local vineyards and orchards that are grown with minimal, if not beneficial, impact on the environment. Most are certified organic and dry-farmed. That means that you can drink to a healthier environment.
Transparent Choices.
We list every ingredient on the label that we use during winemaking, and all occur naturally in wine anyway. For Crenshaw Cru, our estate wines, we even list the “ingredients” we add to the vineyard (like water, compost, organic sprays, etc).
Naturally Delicious.
We want to honor the farming and the terroir by manipulating the wine as little as possible to retain a clean, probiotic, and delicious finished product. We love wine’s wildness, and that it can be different every year.
