Free Range Flower Winery

Name: Free Range Flower Winery
Address: POBox 21046, Oakland, CA 94620, Oakland, CA
Telephone: 510-547-7173
Price range: $$

Free Range Flower Winery is an award-winning, winemaker-owned and -operated, urban winery located in Oakland, California, that handcrafts premium flower wine in small batches from locally sourced, organically grown flowers -- not grapes.

Founder and DIY winemaker, Aaliyah Nitoto, launched her "innovative" (Wine Enthusiast) winemaking venture after attending the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center's program in 2015.

Drawing from her background in biology, herbalism, and nutrition education, Aaliyah combines her knowledge of flowers and plants, taste profiles, and science into the art of flower winemaking.

Her process updates ancient women's garden winemaking traditions for 21st century tastes.

Dedicated to sustainable practices that yield world-class wine and build community, Free Range Flower Winery welcomes partnerships with local farmers, makers, artists, mixologists, event planners, and community-minded organizations.

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Free Range Flower Winery

Founder(s), CEO and/or President Aaliyah Nitoto

Founder Story

Flowers have such amazing qualities, the aromatic compounds, dynamic colors, complex and unusual flavors, nutritional and healing properties. Flowers are magical and powerful. For years, through my work as an herbalist, I had learned about the deep history and wellness benefits of flower-based essential oils. Then I discovered these flower winemaking traditions, hundreds even thousands of years old, from all over the world. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China. Also Korea, much of Europe, Colonial America. It was often women making these wines. And now, since they’ve basically been neglected for so long, they’re barely known. So this really intrigued me and touched my heart, and I wanted to bring these wines back with a modern spin.