California

Stags' Leap Winery poured its very first vintage in 1893, and that same classical standard of care in the vineyard and cellar still guides the esta...

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

The Prisoner Wine Company traces back to 2000, when a young winemaker named Dave Phinney released just 385 cases of a Zinfandel-driven red blend in...

Turley Wine Cellars was founded in 1993 by Larry Turley, a former emergency room physician who set out to champion California's old vine heritage r...

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...

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

Carol Shelton is one of California's most decorated winemakers, having earned San Francisco Chronicle Winemaker of the Year honors and built a four...

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

Sine Qua Non is the singular creation of Manfred Krankl, an Austrian-born winemaker who arrived in Los Angeles in 1980 with almost nothing and wen...

Brothers Carlo and Dante Mondavi, fourth-generation members of the famed Mondavi wine family, founded RAEN in 2013 after cutting their teeth at Con...

Carol Shelton has been dedicated to Zinfandel since 1978, earning a reputation as one of California's foremost specialists in the variety. She and ...

Domaine Carneros was founded in 1987 by the Taittinger family, owners of the storied Champagne house, in partnership with the Kobrand Corporation, ...

Greg Brewer has spent three decades honing his craft in Santa Barbara County, with a particular devotion to the Sta. Rita Hills sub-appellation. He...

Dry Creek Vineyard was founded in 1972 by David S. Stare, an MIT-trained civil engineer who traded his career for a dream of winemaking after falli...

Anthill Farms was founded by three former cellar hands from Williams Selyem, David Low, Anthony Filiberti, and Webster Marquez, who met working tog...

Thomas Rivers Brown arrived in California in the late 1990s with a wine habit developed at the University of Virginia, taking a job at a Calistoga ...

Louis Honig purchased a 68-acre ranch in Rutherford back in 1964, growing Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that he sold to neighboring...

Markham Vineyards traces back to a stone cellar built in St. Helena in 1879 by pioneering vintner Jean Laurent, which became the heart of Markham w...

Auctioneer takes its name from Michael Broadbent, the legendary wine authority who founded Christie's wine department in 1966 and, alongside Robert...

Brothers Carlo and Dante Mondavi, fourth-generation members of the storied Mondavi wine family, founded RAEN in 2013 after honing their craft at Co...

Liquid Farm was founded in 2009 by Nikki and Jeff Nelson, built around the idea that great wine begins in the vineyard rather than the cellar. The ...

Taub Family Vineyards carries four generations of history in the American wine trade, a legacy that began in the wholesale business shortly after P...

Bernardus was founded by Ben Pon, a Dutch enthusiast who first visited California's Carmel Valley in the 1970s. Pon fell in love with the region's...

Chappellet was founded in 1967 by Donn and Molly Chappellet on Pritchard Hill, one of Napa Valley's highest and most storied vineyard sites, where ...

The Mauritson family has been growing grapes in Dry Creek Valley since 1868, starting with a Rockpile homestead that grew to 1,600 hectares by the ...

The Mauritson family has been growing grapes in Dry Creek Valley since 1868, when they first planted vines in what is now the Rockpile appellation....

The Mauritson family has been farming in Sonoma County since the 19th century, and Clay Mauritson has made wine under his own name since the 1990s....

1985 was the last great vintage at Caymus before a shift in direction reshaped the winery starting in 1987, making this a genuine time capsule of C...

Randy Dunn built his reputation on powerful, structured, age-worthy Cabernet, and this Napa Valley bottling (distinct from his more famous Howell M...

Made only in exceptional vintages, Andrus Reserve is Pine Ridge founder Gary Andrus's flagship wine, a proprietary blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with...

Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery sits on the western edge of St. Helena, where vines were first planted in 1882. The Novak family has stewa...

Matanzas Creek Winery has crafted site-expressive wines from Sonoma County since its founding in 1977, now operating under Jackson Family Wines fro...

Liquid Farm was founded in 2009 by Nikki and Jeff Nelson, who set out to make the kind of Chardonnay they loved to drink themselves: earth and mine...

La Crema was founded in 1979 with a clear mission: to showcase exceptional wines from California's best cool-climate regions. Based in Sonoma Count...

Trailside Vineyard is the passion project of Master Sommelier Carlton McCoy Jr. and Jeremy Seysses, winemaker at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. The two ...

Cakebread Cellars was established in Rutherford in 1973 by the Cakebread family, and Sauvignon Blanc holds a special place in that history as the v...

Shafer Vineyards was founded in 1972, when John Shafer left a 23-year career in publishing and moved his family to Napa Valley to start over as a w...

Land of Saints was founded by Angela and Jason Osborne, of A Tribute to Grace Wine Company, alongside Manuel Cuevas of C2 Cellars, three friends wh...

Sonoma-Cutrer was founded in 1973 by Brice Cutrer Jones in the cool reaches of the Sonoma Coast, with a singular mission: producing estate-bottled ...

Duckhorn Vineyards was founded in Napa Valley in 1976 by Dan and Margaret Duckhorn, and within a decade the couple launched Decoy as a way to bring...

Merry Edwards founded her namesake winery in 1997 in Sebastopol, California, arriving with decades of winemaking experience and a reputation for el...