About Caymus-Suisun Winery
Caymus-Suisun Winery is the Wagner family's purpose-built home in Suisun Valley, opened in 2022, fifty years after the family founded Caymus Vineyards in Rutherford. The Wagners were drawn across the Napa county line by Suisun Valley's agricultural landscape, family farms and fruit quality. The resulting property presents the region through a more contemporary estate experience, with vineyards, gardens, orchards and a tasting environment designed to open toward the surrounding landscape.
The tasting program includes wines from the broader Wagner family portfolio as well as bottlings created specifically from Suisun Valley fruit. Those regional wines include Grand Durif, the family's interpretation of Petite Sirah, The Walking Fool red blend and Bay Rosé. A tasting may also introduce guests to well-known Wagner wines from other California regions, creating an useful comparison between Suisun Valley and the family's longer-established projects. The retail area can include current releases, library selections and small-production bottles that are not always available through normal retail channels.
Tastings are reservation-based and generally last about 75 minutes. The Suisun Valley Tasting focuses on the property and regional wines, while the Select Tasting broadens the experience. Separate arrangements apply to parties of ten or more. Guests may also purchase wine by the glass and spend time enjoying the views. Current availability begins at 10 a.m. daily, and reservation times extend through the afternoon.
Caymus-Suisun is well suited to travelers who want a polished tasting destination while still learning about the valley around it. The gardens and agricultural setting keep the experience connected to Suisun Valley, while the Wagner family portfolio gives visitors a recognizable reference point. Reservations are important, especially on weekends, because the winery operates with timed hosted experiences rather than an entirely open walk-in format. Tastings require a reservation and the winery is a 21-and-over establishment. Animals are prohibited apart from ADA service animals, and outside food and picnicking are not permitted.
Suisun Valley became an AVA in 1982, just one year after Napa, and shares much of the same maritime climate off San Francisco and San Pablo Bays. Its richer soils suit Petite Sirah in particular, though Zinfandel and Sauvignon Blanc also do well. The valley was known for stone fruit and walnuts long before it was known for wine, and orchards still sit among the vines.
Three wines are made exclusively from Suisun Valley fruit. Grand Durif is a Petite Sirah, Durif being the grape's other name, with "grand" added for the wine's softness. The Walking Fool is a Zinfandel and Petite Sirah red blend produced by Jenny Wagner and named for her great-great-grandfather Johannes Glos, who arrived in Napa Valley in the 1880s and travelled largely on foot. Bay Rose rounds out the trio. Tastings also range across the wider Wagner portfolio, Caymus Cabernet included.
The visit is built around the grounds as much as the glass. Guests can walk the estate's walking vineyard, where crown-pruned vines stand without modern trellising, a genuinely uncommon sight in California, and wander acres of fruit trees, vegetable beds and flower plantings, or take the palm-lined alley. The retail room carries one-off small-production and library bottlings that are not generally sold elsewhere, and there is espresso on the way out.
Tastings run 75 minutes and are booked through Tock: the Suisun Valley Tasting at $25 a head, a Select Tasting at $50, and a large-party option for ten or more at $75. Reservations are required for a seated tasting, though wine is also sold by the glass to drink on the grounds. All guests must be 21 or over.
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