Hook & Ladder Winery

Hook & Ladder Winery is Cecil De Loach's second act — and in many ways his most personal. Cecil De Loach co-founded De Loach Vineyards in 1975 and built it into one of the Russian River Valley's most recognized estate producers before eventually selling the brand. In 2002, he established Hook & Ladder on Olivet Road — named in tribute to the firefighters and agricultural community of the Russian River Valley — as a genuinely family-scale small producer focused on the varieties and neighborhoods he has known his entire winemaking life.

The Olivet Road estate sits between Harvest Moon and Sunce wineries — the three forming an informal neighborhood wine community that has built mutual loyalty through genuine quality and warmth rather than marketing budgets. Cecil's estate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Zinfandel from Russian River Valley sources show the accumulated knowledge of a winemaker who has farmed this specific RRV corridor for nearly five decades.

The walk-in Thursday through Monday format, picnic grounds, family-friendly atmosphere, and honest pricing make Hook & Ladder one of the most genuinely community-oriented and unpretentious estate wine experiences on the Santa Rosa Olivet Road wine corridor.