It all started with a salmon and a boot. Well, not quite, but sort of. Established in 2015, California’s Las Jaras was founded by winemaker Joel Burt and actor-comedian slash food enthusiast Eric Wareheim, who bonded over their shared love for food and wine when they met at a Malibu beach party a few years prior. “It’s a very L.A. story. Joel was cooking a salmon and just doing everything I wanted to be doing. He was a grown up, a cook,” Wareheim recounts of their first meeting. “He...
