Wait Cellars was founded in 2005 by Bob Wait, a local to San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood and owner of The Page on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. Wait Cellars is a fully bonded California winery, currently leasing equipment and space at the Bluxome Street Winery in San Francisco’s SOMA district.

Wait Cellars' goal is to produce limited amounts of balanced Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from carefully chosen fruit -- and then make it where we live, in the city we love. We seek cool, gently farmed, low-yield vineyards within a local radius. Much of our fruit currently comes from Devoto Gardens, in Sebastopol, and we are slowly developing our own small block in the Petaluma Gap.

We follow a non-interventionist, old-world sensibility in the winery. If we've done things right in the vineyard, we need only steer it to bottle with as little manipulation as possible. The result being, we believe, a transparent expression of the varietal and vineyard on our label: a genuineness and an elegance through fanatical simplicity.

Bob hails from Michigan and holds a BSE from the University of Michigan. He’s taken wine and grape-growing courses over the years through UC Berkeley and Davis, and is in the winemakers program at UC Davis. Wait Cellars was conceived as a small, family-managed endeavor from the beginning, to channel a passion for wines made simply, on a human scale, and perhaps to be run one day by his three sons, currently ages 6, 3, and 3. David Wait, Bob's brother, designs and carves the woodcuts featured on all Wait Cellars labels.

We hope you enjoy our wines.