About Callaway Vineyard & Winery
Callaway Vineyard & Winery is the English-heritage family estate of Ely Callaway, the same Callaway who later founded Callaway Golf and whose entrepreneurial instinct shaped both a wine region and a golf industry. Ely Callaway established his Temecula Valley estate in 1969, making Callaway one of the California wine industry's most historically founding Southern California producers and the winery most responsible for establishing Temecula as a wine tourism destination.
The Rancho California Road estate pioneered the Temecula Valley wine tourism model: a destination winery designed for the massive Southern California visitor market, offering wine tasting, restaurant dining, and the vineyard landscape experience to the millions of day-trippers within a two-hour drive radius from Los Angeles and San Diego.
Callaway's Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon established the Temecula Valley's identity as a wine growing zone capable of producing varietally correct wines of commercial quality. The estate's survival through multiple ownership changes reflects the deep brand recognition that Ely Callaway's founding identity established in the Southern California wine consciousness.
