About Us

Bent Dime Winery was born from a deep-rooted passion for wine, cocktail culture, and the art of traditional liqueur-making. For years, Enrico Zampieri crafted homemade limoncello using refining each batch with an obsessive attention to balance, flavor, and purity. 

Enrico's firsthand experience in California’s restaurant scene—where he often faced the limitations of being able to serve only wine and beer—created the right circumstances for Lemoncello. A process of experimentation began, infusing and aging wine and sake to develop ingredients that could legally be used under a wine and beer license. Around the same time, a Meyer lemon tree in the backyard was heavy with fruit, and there was already a plan to make limoncello once the lemons were ripe. That’s when the idea was born.

The vision came to life through a partnership with Les Wright—long-time Silicon Valley CFO, start-up mentor, passionate winemaker, and owner behind 37th Parallel Wines.

Less than six months after the collaboration began, Bent Dime’s Lemoncello was born. And less than a year later, its Orancello followed—expanding the line of wine-based aperitifs designed for flavor, flexibility, and fun. Today, Bent Dime Winery is just getting started, with exciting new projects already in development and a clear mission: to revolutionize the world of drinks, one wine-based cocktail at a time.