California

The Debate is a Napa Valley project founded in 2010 by winemaker Jean Hoefliger and business partner Rob McKay, built on the idea that good wine, l...

Vivier Wines was founded in 2009 by Stéphane Vivier, a Burgundy-born winemaker trained at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon who spent time worki...

Andis Wines was founded in 2009 by husband and wife Andy Friedlander, a Marine Corps veteran who spent decades building Hawaii's largest commercial...

The Honig family purchased their sixty eight acre Rutherford vineyard in 1964, initially selling fruit to neighboring wineries before releasing th...

Sonoma-Cutrer was founded in 1973 by Brice Cutrer Jones, a former Air Force pilot who turned to winemaking after earning his MBA. He spent the bett...

Hartford Family Wines was founded in the early 1990s by Don and Jennifer Hartford, drawn to the Russian River Valley by their love of the region's ...

John Alban is widely credited as a pioneer of the Rhône Rangers movement, having spent seven years scouting the Central Coast for the right site be...

Randy and Lori Dunn have owned and operated Dunn Vineyards since 1979, building a reputation for some of Napa Valley's most powerful and age-worthy...

Ryan Deovlet's path to winemaking began far from a cellar, as a former semi-pro baseball infielder whose career ended with an arm injury. He turned...

Frog's Leap was founded in 1981 by John Williams and Larry Turley in Rutherford, one of Napa Valley's most storied sub-appellations. From its earli...

The Biale family, immigrants from Northern Italy, began growing Zinfandel on their farm just outside the town of Napa in 1937. In the 1940s, a teen...

Marietta Cellars was founded in 1978 by Sonoma native Chris Bilbro, who came from three generations of winemaking roots and built the winery around...

RAEN was founded in 2013 by brothers Carlo and Dante Mondavi, fourth-generation winemakers and grandsons of Robert Mondavi. After their father Tim ...

Klinker Brick is owned and farmed by the Felten family, longtime Lodi grape growers who spent decades selling fruit to some of Napa and Sonoma's mo...

The Hilt was founded in 2008 by the same ownership group behind Jonata, with backing tied to Stan Kroenke of Screaming Eagle fame. The winery set o...

The Hilt is a project from the owners of Screaming Eagle, built around a singular vision for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grown in the rugged, wind-ba...

The Morisoli family's roots in Rutherford trace back to 1902, when Rocco and Lodovina Morisoli arrived as sharecroppers and slowly saved enough to ...

Force & Grace is a partnership between Joseph Carr, the entrepreneur behind the Josh Cellars brand, and winemaker Jean Hoefliger, whose resume ...

LaRue Wines was founded in 2009 by winemaker Katy Wilson, who previously honed her craft at the respected Sonoma Coast producer Cobb Wines. From th...

McPrice "Mac" Myers made his first wine in 2002 with just a ton of grapes and no formal training, working out of a custom crush facility in Santa B...

Lail Vineyards was founded by Robin Lail, a fourth-generation Napa Valley vintner whose family history traces back to Gustave Niebaum, founder of t...

Silenus Winery traces its roots to 1968, when Bruce Newlan, a former rocket scientist who fell in love with Napa Valley on vacation, replanted a wa...

Barnett Vineyards was founded in 1983 by Fiona and Hal Barnett atop Spring Mountain in Napa Valley, where the family built a reputation for mountai...

Clos Du Val was founded in 1972 when the Goelet family tasked French-born winemaker Bernard Portet with searching the world for vineyard land capab...

Rivers-Marie was founded in 2002 by husband and wife Thomas Rivers Brown and Genevieve Marie Welsh, with the winery's name combining both of their ...

Coquerel Family Wine Estates was founded in 2005 by high school sweethearts Brenda and Clay Cockerell, who spent decades traveling and tasting wine...

The Debate remains the joint vision of winemaker Jean Hoefliger and proprietor Rob McKay, who built the label around the idea that Napa Valley's di...

Takara Sake USA brews Sho Chiku Bai Junmai-shu in Berkeley, California, continuing a lineage that stretches back to Takara Shuzo in Japan. By sour...

Domaine de la Terre Rouge is the work of Bill Easton, who has been handcrafting wines in Amador County's Shenandoah Valley since the mid-1980s afte...

Samuel Louis Smith describes himself as a micro-négociant, crafting small batches of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Syrah from mountain sites across M...

Stéphane Vivier grew up in a small Burgundian village, where he developed such a precocious palate that as a child he could identify what his moth...

Carol Shelton is one of the most awarded winemakers in the United States, a career that began after a tour of Sebastiani Winery convinced her to sw...

Stéphane Vivier grew up in the village of Meloisey in Burgundy's Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, where childhood afternoons in a neighbor's vineyard led hi...

Samuel Louis Smith is the eponymous project of a Salinas-based winemaker focused on organic, mountainous vineyard sites across Monterey County and ...

Hartford Court was founded in 1994 in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, quickly building a reputation for single-vineyard Chardonnay and ...

Citrine takes its name from the "yellow quartz" gemstone, a nod to the wine's style: a balance of golden California sun with a gentle kiss of mine...

Terre Rouge is the label built by Bill Easton and Jane O'Riordan, among the original "Rhône Rangers" who began planting Rhône varietals in Californ...

BloodRoot is a California winemaking collaboration led by Noah and Kelly Dorrance of Reeve Wines, built around a simple goal: source fruit from ser...

Mark Aubert began his winemaking career in 1989 at Peter Michael under the mentorship of famed consultant Helen Turley, a pedigree that carried him...

Mark Aubert grew up in St. Helena with farming running through his family, and after graduating college he returned to Napa Valley to pursue winema...

Ridge Vineyards traces back to 1885, when Osea Perrone planted vines and built a stone winery near the top of Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz M...

Whitehall Lane Winery was founded in 1979 on a 25-acre parcel in Rutherford originally planted in the 1800s, and has been owned and operated by the...

Seghesio Family Vineyards traces back to 1895, when Edoardo Seghesio, an Italian immigrant, planted his first Zinfandel vines in Sonoma County's Al...

2023 The Paring Chardonnay is the second label from Jonata and The Hilt, crafted from small lots drawn from the Sta. Rita Hills estate vineyard of...

Walt and Joan Flowers came from a nursery business in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but dreamed of growing the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir they loved. ...

Lioco was founded by Matt and Sara Licklider, who for the past fifteen years have been leading voices in the New California wine movement. Their ap...

Sam Smith caught the wine bug while studying French in Bordeaux, a homestay that reshaped his path away from international business and into the ce...

Marietta Cellars was founded by Chris Bilbro in 1978, starting with just a handful of purchased grapes and growing into a Sonoma County institution...