Anna deLaski

The Training The discipline at Solminer is agricultural before it is aesthetic. DeLaski and David deLaski grow most of their own grapes on their farm in Los Olivos, California, a place whose certifications trace the work across time: organic in 2014 and biodynamic in 2018. That training continues in the way the land is handled. Their regenerative practices include integrating livestock into the vineyard, not tilling the land, and growing grapes more in tune with nature. The varieties themselves carry the thread of origin. Grüner Veltliner, Riesling, St. Laurent and Blaufränkisch form the focus, farmed organically and biodynamically, with natural wines made from Austrian varieties related to deLaski’s Austrian heritage.

The Lineage Lineage here is not framed through a named culinary school or a named teacher. It is carried through heritage, through the farm, and through the shared work of Anna and David deLaski, whose 2012 co-founding of the company gave that lineage a California home. Austrian grapes in Los Olivos create the clearest family line in the work. Grüner Veltliner and Riesling bring one set of associations; St. Laurent and Blaufränkisch bring another, all gathered under a farming approach that places soil, animals, vines and restraint in the same conversation. As proprietor, deLaski’s role is tied to continuity: the wines are not only produced at Solminer, they are grown from a set of decisions repeated season after season. Organic and biodynamic farming, regenerative vineyard practices, and Austrian varieties together form the grammar of the house.

The Table The bottle that makes the lineage especially visible is Solminer Blaufränkisch. It was the wine selected to be poured at the Girls for Grains & Grapes event, a concrete expression of the Austrian-variety focus that runs through the farm and cellar. That selection also points back to the larger craft: natural wine made from grapes chosen for their connection to deLaski’s heritage, grown mostly on the couple’s own farm, and shaped by practices intended to keep the vineyard closer to nature. In that sense, the table receives more than a varietal wine; it receives a family thread, a farming method, and a California address in one glass.