2021 Levo Please Fasten Your Seatbelt Syrah Paso Robles 6pk 6x750ml

Levo Wine is the creation of self-taught winemaker Bret Urness, who founded the label in 2011 after a pile of rejection letters from California's enology programs sent him in a far more interesting direction — into the remote cellars of Portugal's Douro Valley, where he spent four months making wine by hand with just a pump, a pair of boots, and a journal.

Those primitive lessons stuck. Back in California, Urness set up shop in Paso Robles' Tin City — an industrial warehouse district turned craft beverage hub — where he now produces small-batch Rhône-varietal wines from some of the Central Coast's most coveted vineyard sites. The name is rooted in the Latin verb levō — to raise, lift, elevate — and reflects Urness's stated stylistic goal: rich, structured, voluptuous California reds that never sacrifice varietal correctness, electricity, or aromatic lift. Labels and wine names change every vintage by design, creating a sense of immediacy and rarity that has earned Levo a devoted cult following.

The Please Fasten Your Seatbelt Syrah is Levo's flagship red, a 100% Syrah sourced from five acclaimed Central Coast vineyards — Caliza, Fulldraw, G2, Larner, and Piazza Bella Vista — each contributing distinct terroir threads to the final blend.

The 2021 was 80% destemmed, preserving both fruit purity and structural grip, and aged 18 months in 73% new French oak barriques.