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Woman-owned wineries, Sep 2020

Featured Bottle: 2019 LOTIS Vermentino, Las Brisas Vineyard

We talked with winemaker Lindsey Otis about her stunning Vermentino and about launching her wine brand mid-pandemic. "We will move through these difficult times, like we have through history and continue to evolve through our creativity and perseverance." …

KSRO California Wine Country Radio, oct 2022

Radio Talk show with Dan Berger and Steve Jaxon

Lindsey Otis, owner and winemaker of LOTIS Wines, is our guest on California Wine Country with Steve Jaxon and Dan Berger...After making wine for so many other people for so long she wanted to express her own creative process so LOTIS Wines was born in 2019…Dan Berger tells how Greg La Follette suggested Lotis Wines. Dan describes purity of flavor in wine, which depends on good acidity…

Sonoma Magazine, Nov 2021

21 Rising Stars on Sonoma’s Wine Scene

Winemaking is personal for Lindsey Otis. Growing up in Santa Cruz, Otis was obsessed with grape vines and fermentation (she aged Martinelli’s in her closet as a child) and studied wine at UC Davis. After college, Lindsey harvest-hopped, chasing the seasons and gaining a vast store of knowledge along the way…

the wine write, july 16, 2023

Lindsey Otis is LOTIS Wines

She's doing what she's supposed to be doing.

Lindsey Otis showed an affinity for wine at a young age. She experimented growing grapevine cuttings in her Santa Cruz neighborhood. She aged Martinelli cider in her bedroom closet. Her senses of taste and smell were put to good use growing up. Her parents said she could even sniff out a shady antiques deal…