CUSTOM WINE PRESS - CREATE YOUR OWN WINE AT CRUSHPAD

Want to make a huge splash at your next fancy dinner party? Bring out a bottle of wine with your name on it. Rather than just another example of the personalization trend, wine-makers Crushpad takes DIY to an intoxicating new level. Crushpad is a San Francisco winery that provides aspiring winemakers and gourmands the facilities, the know-how, and high quality grapes, if you’re willing to pay – everything needed to produce your own exclusive bottle of wine. The degree of involvement is completely flexible. Want to come up with just enough cases of chardonnay to serve at home dinners as your own house wine? Done. Or maybe come up with a not-found-anywhere-else table wine for your restaurant or boutique hotel? Easy-peasy.

Pictured is one of Crushpad’s rising stars, a limited edition Pinot Noir by Kindred Wines. Loved by wine bloggers and connoisseurs alike, the 2005 vintage created by a bunch of former school friends from Boston caused such a ripple that their next offering, a soon-to-be unveiled Bordeaux, is highly anticipated.