About Gary Farrell Wines
Gary Farrell Wines is one of the foundational names in Russian River Valley Pinot Noir history. Gary Farrell spent 14 years as head winemaker at Davis Bynum Winery, where he first worked with Rochioli, Allen, and other legendary Westside Road vineyard sources, before founding his own label in 1982. The wines he produced during the 1980s and 1990s under his own name helped establish the RRV's international reputation and created the template that an entire generation of California Pinot Noir producers would follow.
The Westside Road estate, perched on a hillside above the Russian River Valley floor, offers some of the most dramatic and comprehensive vineyard views available at any appointment winery in the corridor. The tasting room looks across Rochioli, Allen, Bacigalupi, and other legendary Westside Road vineyard sites that Gary Farrell worked with for decades and that the current winemaking team continues to source from.
Currently under the ownership of Wine Access, the Gary Farrell label continues to produce single-vineyard Pinot Noir from the Westside Road relationships that Gary built over 40 years of farming partnerships, Rochioli, Allen, Olivet Lane, and Hallberg Ranch, earning consistent 90–96 point recognition for wines that honor the RRV's most historically significant single-vineyard Pinot Noir tradition.
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Russian River HeritageGary Farrell helped define Russian River Valley Pinot Noir in the 1980s.
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Hilltop Estate TastingThe Westside Road tasting room has panoramic vineyard views across the Russian River.
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Single-Vineyard PinotMultiple vineyard-designate bottlings showcase the diversity of the Russian River Valley.
A historic Russian River Valley name with one of the best estate-tasting views in the AVA.
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Featured Wines
Pinot Noir
Rochioli Vineyard Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley · Westside Rd
Gary Farrell's most historically significant wine, Rochioli Vineyard Pinot Noir from one of the most celebrated and sought-after single-vineyard sources in the Russian River Valley, showing what 40 years of Westside Road farming relationship produces.
Pinot Noir
Allen Vineyard Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley · Westside Rd
A contrasting Westside Road expression from the Allen Vineyard, showing a different personality from the same RRV corridor and demonstrating how different sites on the same legendary wine road produce distinctly individual Pinot Noir characters.
Pinot Noir
Olivet Lane Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley · Olivet Lane
Gary Farrell's Olivet Lane expression, from the historic Pellegrini family vineyard that has appeared on celebrated RRV labels since the 1980s, showing the Olivet Road character in the Gary Farrell minimal-intervention single-vineyard style.
Chardonnay
Russian River Valley Chardonnay
Russian River Valley
Gary Farrell's RRV Chardonnay from estate and sourced Westside Road blocks, mineral, food-friendly, and showing the cool-climate character that the same vineyard relationships Gary developed for Pinot Noir also produce in California's most celebrated white variety.
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Hillside Appointment Tasting
Appointment tasting with the most sweeping Westside Road vineyard views in the Russian River Valley, Rochioli, Allen, and Olivet Lane single-vineyard Pinot Noirs from one of California's most historically significant Pinot Noir estates overlooking the sites that made them.
$45
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