Cépaé

Emotions of men and women working their vineyards year-round to craft a wine they are passionate about.
Emotions of wine tasters enjoying a glass, bringing back flavors of a unique moment of their life, flavors of a travel, or providing new unknown sensations.

We have founded Cépaé to convey these emotions to you directly, bypassing the traditional layers of middlemen, to represent winemakers directly; for the most part, small winemakers who would not have dreamt of even reaching the US shores.

Think of Cépaé as the most direct way to get wine, the best alternative to be in the actual winemaker's tasting room.

Our Winemakers

We select our winemakers according to very stringent criteria:

- Terroir driven: the Terroir is the single most important component of a wine, and the hardest to define. Our winemakers deliver wines that are rooted in their soil, their region, their climate, their tradition...

- Authenticity: wine making is an ever evolving craft, but our winemakers respect the generations of winemakers who perfected the craft before them; we are not interested in sorcerer's apprentice trying to get "wine" out of chemical additives. The taste of the wine is first and foremost defined by the grape and farming practices.

- Personal relationships: we have a personal connection to the winemaker, whether it is directly or through a friend - no more than two degrees of separation between our team and the winemaker.