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California wine, without boundaries

Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! wines in flasks on tasting bench

Hardy Wallace and Kate Graham’s Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! (EWCY!) offers elegant, unconventional and multi-regional blends.

With wildfires, drought, spring frost and lower yields, it has been a hard several years for the West Coast wine industry. In addition, the pandemic created a smaller labour force and continuing supply-chain issues, and, as if that isn’t enough, economic woes mean numerous vineyards have sold their businesses, cutting off smaller producers from their fruit supply for winemaking.

Though challenging, this onslaught of trials has forced the wine industry to rethink some of its most long-standing norms, sometimes to the benefit of the...