About Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard
Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard is the most celebrity-founding-actor-family-legacy and Santa Barbara County hospitality-celebrated wine estate. Fess Parker — the tall Texan actor whose portrayal of Davy Crockett in the 1955 Walt Disney television series created a national coonskin cap craze and whose Daniel Boone television role made him one of the most recognizable faces in American entertainment — channeled his Texas frontier spirit and entertainment industry success into a Santa Barbara County wine and hospitality empire.
The Foxen Canyon Road Los Olivos estate — where Fess Parker established his winery in 1989 and subsequently built the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn & Spa in Los Olivos into one of Santa Barbara wine country's most prominent luxury hospitality brands — created the most comprehensively celebrity-entertainment-founding-personality-wine-and-hospitality-combining Santa Barbara County wine estate identity available in any California wine region.
The estate wine program — Santa Barbara County Syrah, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Viognier, and Riesling from Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley sources — draws on the genuine cool-maritime Santa Barbara County growing character that the county's most diverse and individually AVA-contrasting wine appellation network provides. Wine Spectator has consistently recognized Fess Parker estate Syrah and Pinot Noir for the genuine Santa Barbara County cool-climate character and personal celebrity-founding-family legacy that the Fess Parker brand embodies.