Abundance Vineyards is a family owned and operated boutique winery. It has evolved from hard work and creative minds melding together to create over a decade of quality, fine standing wines. The owners, Dino and Ron Mencarini, have been pioneers in the Lodi winegrowing region since before 1951. Their passion for the industry brought about their interest in producing great wines for an even greater value. The family lives by the philosophy of “Good friends, good food and good wine bring about an ABUNDANTLY good time!”Abundance Vineyards began as a custom crush boutique winery first setting roots in the Sonoma area and has now planted permanent roots in Lodi, Ca. There is not a vine they own that hasn’t been planted by the Mencarini family themselves and there is not a day that goes by with out a hard earned pop of a cork.“I never have liked those ‘mine-mine-mine’ types of things,” Dino says, while explaining how his family helps each other. “I like to run my business as equals, like we are all on a ten-mule team pulling together. That’s how we elevate our wine to gold.”As a child, Dino helped both his parents and grandparents in turning soil to harvest various kinds of crops, making him a ‘child of the soil.’ Although he enjoyed helping with the other crops they were growing, he developed a special interest for the winemaking process.“I just have a passion for it,” he says. “Every vintage is different, every year is different. I always had fun with it as a kid- now I still feel like a kid.”