About Driven Cellars
Driven Cellars is named for the quality of being driven — the fierce internal compulsion that pushes a person forward not by calculation but by some deeper motivation that doesn't accept adequate as good enough. The estate declares winemaking as this kind of driven pursuit: not a business decision but a compulsion, not a chosen career but an identity.
The Pleasant Valley Road estate in El Dorado County produces Zinfandel, Syrah, Barbera, and Grenache from high-elevation vineyard blocks where the driven-farmer philosophy has built a specific site knowledge over more than a decade. The El Dorado County's high-altitude growing conditions reward exactly the kind of driven attention the name declares.
The daily walk-in experience is dog-friendly, picnic-welcoming, and family-hospitable.