About Acacia Vineyard
Acacia Vineyard holds a singular place in California wine history. Founded in 1979 at 2750 Las Amigas Road in the Carneros AVA, Acacia was among the first wineries in the state to produce vineyard-designated Pinot Noir — a pioneering approach that helped establish the principle that California Pinot Noir could be as site-specific and individually expressive as its Burgundian counterpart. At a time when most California producers were blending broadly across appellations, Acacia's founders believed the cool, windswept soils of Carneros could yield Pinot Noir of genuine distinction and place.
The Carneros AVA — straddling the southern ends of both Napa and Sonoma counties along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay — provides the ideal conditions for Acacia's program. Marine fog rolls in from the bay each morning, keeping temperatures low and extending the growing season well into autumn. The result is Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with naturally high acidity, restrained alcohol, and the kind of finesse that warmer Napa Valley appellations simply cannot replicate. Acacia was one of the first estates to recognize and exploit these qualities systematically.
Pinot Noir remains the soul of the winery, produced across several vineyard designates that showcase the diversity within Carneros itself. The estate Chardonnay program is equally serious — barrel-fermented and aged with the kind of restraint that lets the vineyard speak rather than the winemaker's hand. Both programs reflect a philosophy that has remained consistent across four-plus decades: let Carneros do the work.
"Acacia didn't just make great Carneros Pinot — they proved the concept. Every California producer working with vineyard-designated Pinot owes something to what Acacia established in 1979."
Tastings are available Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm and Sunday from noon to 4pm, with walk-ins welcome — a rarity among serious Napa-Carneros estates. The tasting fee starting at $20 makes Acacia one of the more accessible fine wine experiences in the region. The tasting room sits on the Las Amigas Road property surrounded by the estate vineyards, offering an unpretentious, wine-focused visit that reflects the winery's long-standing character.
Now part of the Constellation Brands portfolio, Acacia has maintained its identity and commitment to Carneros terroir through multiple ownership transitions. The winemaking team continues to work with the same estate vineyard sources that defined the winery's early reputation, and the wines remain some of the most consistent and honestly priced expressions of Carneros Pinot Noir available today. For visitors to the southern Napa Valley, Acacia is an essential stop — both for the history and for what's in the glass.
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Acacia Vineyard holdsAcacia Vineyard holds a singular place in California wine history: it is among the first wineries in the state to produce vineyard-designated Pinot Noir — a pioneering approach in 1979 that helped establish the principle that California Pinot Noir could be as site-specific and individually expressive as its Burgundian counterpart.
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Co-founders Michael RichmondCo-founders Michael Richmond and Jerry Goldstein, with founding winemaker Larry Brooks, established the Las Amigas Road estate specifically to demonstrate what the Carneros' cool, bay-influenced terrain could produce in this Burgundy variety.
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The 150-acre LasThe 150-acre Las Amigas Road estate sits less than two miles from the cool waters of upper San Pablo Bay — one of the most bay-proximate commercial wine estates in California — where the daily marine influence creates the cool, consistent growing conditions that Acacia's 45 years of Carneros Pinot Noir production have demonstrated produce wine of distinctive freshness, mineral character, and food-first restraint.
"The founding estate of California's vineyard-designated Pinot Noir tradition — Acacia pioneered single-vineyard Carneros"
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