Adam Huss

Adam Huss started learning and blogging about wine in 2004. He started making wine in 2007 and growing wine in 2012. Along the way, he took  introductory level tests with The Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) and the Court of Master Sommeliers, but he found something missing in these widely revered institutions of formal wine training and didn’t pursue education with either. He chose instead to take the practical approach by working in and with wine and vines. Starting in 2012, Adam converted his Los Angeles yard into a permaculture-inspired wine-producing perennial polyculture, named Crenshaw Cru Winegarden. In 2019, Adam started Centralas, a commercial licensed winery headquartered in South Los Angeles. When he started Centralas, Adam also began recording and publishing the Organic Wine Podcast, which he later renamed the Beyond Organic Wine Podcast. He has interviewed over 180 wine professionals, scientists, authors, and wine farmers and producers from around the world. Recently, Adam and his wife moved from California to the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where he plans to develop an experimentation site for married vines, which are co-planted perennial polycultures made of vines growing on living trees supported by an understory of other beneficial plants.