In the Glass: Introducing the Opal Wines House Pour

In the Glass: Introducing the Opal Wines House Pour

Alongside our rotating list of natural wines from small producers, you’ll always find a quiet constant at the bar: Opal Wines, our house label.

These wines began not as a commercial project, but as an idea — inspired by a passage from Travels with Charley and the notion that the world remakes itself each day. Like an opal shifting colour with the light, each wine is shaped by moment, season, and place.

Our house wines are produced in small batches in the Salinas Valley, a landscape of fog-cooled mornings and sunlit afternoons. The valley’s changing conditions are central to the character of each bottle — no two vintages quite the same, no wine designed to be static.

At the bar, Opal Wines are poured when they feel right. You might find Fire Morning, a bright, mineral-led Chardonnay that reflects early light and cool nights. Or Fog Returning, a Pinot Noir shaped by coastal air and slow ripening. Some evenings call for rosé, others for something deeper. Availability shifts, and we let it.

These wines sit comfortably alongside the rest of our list — not elevated above it, but woven into it. They’re wines made to be enjoyed the same way we enjoy all good bottles here: opened without ceremony, poured generously, and shared at the table.

If you’re curious about what’s pouring, ask at the bar.
The answer may change — and that’s exactly the point.

As the day changes, so do we.