About Deaver Vineyards
Deaver Vineyards carries one of Amador County's most historically significant family names — the Deaver family has been farming on Steiner Road in the Shenandoah Valley since the 1850s, their arrival predating California statehood's wine industry by decades. Ken and Donna Deaver's winery label, established in 1982, was simply formalizing what the family's agricultural history had already written on the land.
The estate produces old-vine Zinfandel, Barbera, Mission, and Sauvignon Blanc from estate Amador County vineyard blocks that include some of the oldest continuously farmed vines in California. The Mission grape — planted by California's Spanish missionaries and among the state's first planted varieties — still grows on the Deaver property, a living connection to California's pre-gold rush viticultural history.