About Acacia Vineyard
The founding estate of California's vineyard-designated Pinot Noir tradition — Acacia pioneered single-vineyard Carneros Pinot Noir in 1979 from 150 e
Acacia 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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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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Featured Wines
Pinot Noir
Las Amigas Vineyard Pinot Noir
Carneros / Las Amigas Estate
The Acacia estate flagship and California's most historically significant vineyard-designated Carneros Pinot Noir — Las Amigas vineyard from the pioneering 1979 estate less than two miles from San Pablo Bay, farming some of the oldest Pinot Noir vines in the United States.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Carneros Pinot Noir
Carneros AVA
Acacia's multi-vineyard Carneros expression — combining the most carefully selected Carneros Pinot Noir lots in the tradition that Richmond and Goldstein pioneered in 1979, showing the bay-influenced cool-climate freshness and mineral restraint that makes Carneros Pinot Noir California's most food-compatible regional expression.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Carneros Chardonnay
Carneros Estate
Acacia's estate Carneros Chardonnay from the 150-acre Las Amigas Road bay-proximate estate — cool, mineral, and showing what the most bay-influenced Carneros terrain consistently produces in California's most popular white variety when site-specific attention guides every winemaking decision.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Gris
Pinot Gris
Carneros Estate
Acacia's aromatic white expression — estate Carneros Pinot Gris from the bay-proximate Las Amigas Road property showing the food-compatible, textural character that the most marine-influenced Carneros terrain produces in this Alsatian variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Carneros Pioneer Walk-In
Daily walk-in at one of California's most historically significant vineyard-designated Carneros estates (1979) — Las Amigas Vineyard Pinot Noir and estate Chardonnay from 150 bay-proximate acres farming some of the oldest Pinot Noir vines in the United States, less than two miles from San Pablo Bay.
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