Jack London Ranch Winery — Sonoma Valley Winery & Tasting Room

Jack London Ranch Winery is named for one of American literature's most towering figures — Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and White Fang, who purchased and farmed the Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen beginning in 1905. London's ambition for the ranch was as enormous as his literary ambition: he planned to build the Wolf House, a massive stone mansion that burned to ruins the night before he was to move in.

The estate operates under the Jack London State Historic Park umbrella, producing Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Cabernet Sauvignon from the same volcanic Glen Ellen hillside terrain that London himself cultivated in the early twentieth century. The London name on a Sonoma Valley wine label connects California literary history to California viticultural history on the same specific plot of land.