No Love Lost Love Found 2023

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon

Region: Napa Valley, CA

Farming: Organic

No Love Lost Wines Co was founded by California born, first generation Cuban American, and Orlando, Florida raised Jay Nunez. Before wine, Jay worked in the music industry for more than 10 years including playing in a band in Florida. Long interested in the outdoors and farming he spent one harvest interning in Napa Valley. He was hooked both by the people he met in Napa Valley, the process of winemaking and as he puts it, “doing something that has a tangible effect on people’s lives”. Encouraged by his mother, he left his work in the music industry, gave away most of his possession and drove across the country to Napa Valley; this was in 2015. He enrolled at Napa Valley College, helped manage some of the heritage rows planted by Dr. Steve Krebs in the Napa Valley College vineyard and made small ferments. Simultaneously he was bartending and studying for the various levels of WSET certification, ultimately completing WSET 3. And he started a small wine tasting group for his peers. Jay attended an event at Compline Wine Shop in downtown Napa with a number of prominent Master Sommeliers. He brought some of his wines to share; the feedback was universal: start your own brand. So he did; the first vintage of No Love Lost wines was in 2019.