We are a California, woman-owned winery. We’re just as fond of the porch-pounders, bubbles, and natural wines as we are of the classics. We love the spirit of agriculture and entrepreneurship, sustainability and the preservation of a collective and tangible history.
I'm Megan Hughes, the woman behind Loella wines. Born and raised in California, surrounded by the farmlands of Ventura County and the Central Coast, agriculture and the impact of its policy in my community had a profound impact in my daily life. Which is why starting Loella in a place that I knew so well, where my grandmother resided one town over, seemed a fitting place to share the vines and the wines and my own love story with the Golden State.
Wine is the combination of some things that I profoundly love- geography, geology, agriculture, politics, history, commerce, the accomplishment of human ideas and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Then you take all of that and you juxtapose it with the context of history and in this day where so much seems intangible, working with wine is keeping that story going. Wine allows for us to live in a moment where one can take a beat and breathe in- to consume it and in doing so ease into ourselves, into our days, and into our own lives. To sit and to talk to someone over a glass of wine or to have someone pour you one, to serve you, and to consume something that comes from lands that are far older than any of us can even comprehend, is pretty damn cool. It’s a call to our own evolutionary narrative and in some small way, helps preserve people’s faith and hopes and imaginations.
A statriotic Californian, I continue my story here with my wife and our little munch of a pup, Willie Nelson.
THE STORY
