About Bacigalupi Vineyards
Bacigalupi Vineyards carries one of the most consequential footnotes in California wine history. The Bacigalupi family's Chardonnay grapes, grown on their Westside Road estate in the Russian River Valley, went into the 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay that won the 1976 Judgment of Paris, humiliating the finest white Burgundies of France and establishing California Chardonnay on the world stage.
Four generations of the Bacigalupi family have farmed this Westside Road estate since the 1950s. Their grapes continue to be sourced by Gary Farrell, Ramey, Kistler, and other prestigious producers, but since 2011 the family has made their own wines, finally giving visitors the opportunity to taste the fruit that helped change wine history in the bottles the family made themselves.
The tasting experience on the estate, with patio seating overlooking the legendary Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines that supply California's finest producers, is one of the most historically significant and quietly extraordinary winery visits on Westside Road.
Bacigalupi Vineyards presents a featured lineup that includes Estate Chardonnay, Estate Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Estate Zinfandel. Together, these bottles provide a focused introduction to the varieties, vineyard sources, and style that define the winery's current portfolio.
"The family that supplied Chateau Montelena's Paris-winning 1973 Chardonnay. Four generations farming Westside Road, now making stunning single-vineya"
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Russian River Valley SettingBacigalupi sits in one of California's most celebrated cool-climate AVAs, known worldwide for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
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Fog-Influenced TerroirRussian River Valley vines benefit from the daily fog that pulls cool Pacific air inland through the Petaluma Gap.
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Sonoma Boutique FormatMost Russian River Valley wineries lean toward small-lot production and family-scale hospitality.
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Featured Wines
Chardonnay
Estate Chardonnay
From the vines that supplied the Paris-winning 1973 Chateau Montelena. Four generations of farming excellence expressed in the family's own bottle, historic, precise, and extraordinary.
Pinot Noir
Estate Pinot Noir
The family's own expression of their famous Westside Road estate, showing the cool-climate precision that made Bacigalupi fruit the choice of California's finest producers for decades.
Pinot Gris
Pinot Gris
A beautiful estate white showing an unusual dimension of what the Bacigalupi terroir can produce beyond the famous Chardonnay.
Zinfandel
Estate Zinfandel
Old-vine estate Zinfandel, showing that the legendary Bacigalupi property produces exceptional Zinfandel alongside its celebrated white and Pinot Noir programs.
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Historic Estate Tasting
$40
A guided tasting in the patio setting overlooking the estate vineyards, including the descendants of the vines that supplied the Paris-winning 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. By appointment, daily.
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