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

Mendocino County / Redwood Valley · Mendocino County AVA
👨‍👩‍👧 Family Friendly 🌄 Scenic Views 🧺 Picnic Grounds 🥂 Estate Wines
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Hours
By appointment only
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Phone
(707) 485-1309
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Tasting Fee
From $15
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Reservations
Required
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Est.
1982

About Girasole Vineyards

Girasole 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. A certified organic and family-owned Mendocino County estate producing estate Sangiovese, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Ba. The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned Girasole Vineyards a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.

The Mendocino County growing environment shapes everything Girasole 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 Girasole Vineyards prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.

Visitors to Girasole 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, Girasole 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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Girasole Vineyards isGirasole Vineyards is a certified organic family-owned Mendocino County estate that brings genuine Italian agricultural passion to the Redwood Valley and Mendocino County wine corridor.
The family —The family — who established the organic estate in 1982 with a specific focus on Italian varietals and the conviction that Mendocino County's clean agricultural environment and warm inland climate could produce Sangiovese, Barbera, and Italian-influenced varieties of genuine character — has maintained their organic certification and Italian varietal focus for over 40 years of continuous Redwood Valley farming.
The 'girasole' nameThe 'girasole' name — Italian for sunflower — reflects the family's Italian agricultural heritage and the Redwood Valley's warm, sunny inland climate that distinguishes Mendocino County's interior growing conditions from the cooler coastal Anderson Valley corridor.
"A certified organic and family-owned Mendocino County estate producing estate Sangiovese, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Ba"
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Featured Wines

Sangiovese
Sangiovese
Mendocino County / Redwood Valley
Girasole's Italian heritage flagship — certified organic Redwood Valley Sangiovese from 40 years of continuous Italian varietal farming in Mendocino County's warm inland climate, showing the food-compatible, cherry-forward character that California's most genuinely Italian-passion-driven organic estate consistently produces in this Tuscan variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Barbera
Barbera
Mendocino County / Redwood Valley
Girasole's Piemontese heritage expression — organic Redwood Valley Barbera showing the high-acid, food-first, immediately versatile character that this northern Italian variety produces in Mendocino County's warm inland climate under 40 years of continuous Italian family organic farming conviction.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
Mendocino County Estate
Girasole's cool-climate expression from Mendocino County's organic terrain — estate Pinot Noir showing what the family's 40-year organic farming conviction produces in California's greatest cool-climate red variety from the Redwood Valley's warm-day, cool-night inland Mendocino County growing conditions.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Mendocino County Estate
Girasole's organic estate Chardonnay from the Redwood Valley Mendocino County property — the most food-first and daily-table-compatible white wine in the Italian-heritage family estate program, reflecting 40 years of organic farming conviction applied to California's most popular white variety.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Italian Organic Estate Appointment
Appointment at one of Mendocino County's most genuinely Italian-heritage and certified organic family estates (1982) — organic Sangiovese, Barbera, and Pinot Noir from the Forsini Road Redwood Valley property with picnic grounds and inland Mendocino County views. Family often present. Most affordable tasting in the county.
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