Frey Vineyards — Mendocino County / Redwood Valley Winery & Tasting Room

Mendocino County / Redwood Valley · Mendocino County AVA
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Hours
By appointment only
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Phone
(800) 760-3739
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Tasting Fee
Complimentary
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Reservations
Required
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Est.
1980

About Frey Vineyards

Frey Vineyards is a dedicated estate winery in Mendocino County wine region in Northern California, producing wines that reflect the character of diverse soils across coastal and inland growing districts. America's first certified organic and biodynamic winery — the Frey family has been farming without sulfites, additives, . The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned Frey Vineyards a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.

The Mendocino County growing environment shapes everything Frey Vineyards produces. Diverse soils across coastal and inland growing districts define the estate's vineyard character, contributing the structure, natural acidity, and terroir specificity that distinguish the finest wines from this appellation. Zinfandel, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay form the backbone of the portfolio, with each variety expressing a distinct facet of the estate's unique growing conditions. Winemaking at Frey Vineyards prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.

Visitors to Frey Vineyards can expect a genuine and unhurried tasting experience that reflects the estate's commitment to quality and hospitality. The tasting room provides an authentic introduction to the estate wines and the Mendocino County appellation. Whether visiting for a focused flight or a deeper exploration of the estate's vineyard programs, Frey Vineyards offers the kind of direct producer experience that wine tourism in California wine country is built on — knowledgeable, welcoming, and genuinely connected to the land and the wines it produces.

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Frey Vineyards holdsFrey Vineyards holds a unique place in American wine history: it is the first certified organic winery in the United States.
Paul and MargueritePaul and Marguerite Frey established the Redwood Valley estate in 1980 — 12 years before California's organic farming certification system was fully developed — with a conviction that wine should be produced without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, additives, or sulfites, and that the natural biological processes of fermentation required no industrial inputs to produce wine of genuine character.
The Frey familyThe Frey family now comprises four generations of continuous Redwood Valley farming on 140 Demeter-certified biodynamic acres that have been farmed without synthetic inputs for over 45 years.
"America's first certified organic and biodynamic winery — the Frey family has been farming without sulfites, additives, "
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Featured Wines

Zinfandel
Biodynamic Zinfandel
Mendocino County / Redwood Valley
Frey's flagship no-sulfite-added expression — Biodynamic Zinfandel from 140 Demeter-certified Redwood Valley acres, produced by America's first certified organic winery without any synthetic inputs for 45 continuous years of the most principled organic winemaking conviction in California history.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Organic Cabernet Sauvignon
Mendocino County / Redwood Valley
Frey's organic estate Cab — Mendocino County Cabernet Sauvignon produced without sulfites, additives, or synthetic inputs from 140 biodynamic Redwood Valley acres, showing what 45 years of America's most principled organic and biodynamic farming produces in this Bordeaux variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Red Blend
Natural Red Blend
Mendocino County Estate
Frey's most accessible no-sulfite-added expression — Natural Red Blend combining the family's biodynamic Mendocino County red variety lots in the most immediately food-compatible and broadly approachable format of America's original organic wine family's four-generation estate program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Sauvignon Blanc
Biodynamic Sauvignon Blanc
Mendocino County Estate
Frey's biodynamic white expression — Redwood Valley Sauvignon Blanc produced without added sulfites from 140 certified biodynamic acres, showing what America's first certified organic winery's 45-year no-synthetic-inputs conviction produces in this Loire variety in Mendocino County's warm-climate inland corridor.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Original Organic Estate Appointment
Complimentary appointment tasting at America's first certified organic winery (1980) — Biodynamic Zinfandel, Cabernet, and Natural Red without added sulfites from the Frey family's four generations of Demeter-certified 140-acre Redwood Valley estate. The most principled no-synthetic-inputs wine estate in American history.
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