Niko Comati and Cooper Allebrand are longtime best friends. After Niko got a taste of wine work in Paso Robles in 2016, he persuaded his buddy to join him in the industry.

The afternoon after an extremely successful Alamati Wine launch party, we met Cooper Allebrand and Niko Comati. The aforementioned launch party included community artists, business owners, and musicians and was a shining example of what Alamati Wine is all about.

This is Alamati, a collaboration nearly three decades in the making whose principals are just as old. The year 2022 marks the label’s second vintage under moonlighters Allebrand, whose day job is for Storm Wines, and Comati, who works at Dierberg–Star Lane.