shedista

Noun

shedista (plural shedistas)

1. A low-budget independent winemaker.
   • If I have any complaint, it is that some of the pieces are too short. The interesting and informative article about the so-called shedistas — low-budget wineries that have sprouted up in and around Santa Barbara that are now turning out some of California’s most exciting wines — would have been...2006 October 22, Michael Steinberger, “Drinking Deeply”, in The New York Times
   • From South Africa’s stunningly beautiful winelands to “shedistas” making wine in California industrial parks, from ubiquitous California chardonnay to the obscure Sagrantino di Montefalco, he gives us straightforward but nicely written descriptions of how wine tastes and what it goes with.2006 November 16, Fred Tasker, “Hedonism lite”, in The Miami Herald