About Jessie's Grove Winery
Jessie's Grove Winery is named for Jessie, a feminine given name honoring a woman in the founding family's history, combined with grove, the woodland cluster of oak trees that historically characterized the Lodi Delta landscape before cultivation. The Werle family has farmed the West Turner Road estate since 1888, making Jessie's Grove one of California's most historically continuous family wine operations.
The 1888 founding date places the estate in the era of California's earliest continuous wine production, planted when Lodi's Delta landscape was being converted from tule marshes and native grasslands to agricultural use. The old Zinfandel vines on the property include some of Lodi's most historically significant heritage blocks, including the Royal Tee Zinfandel planted in the 1880s and 1890s.
The West Turner Road estate is surrounded by some of the remaining valley oak woodland that once characterized the Lodi landscape, the grove of the naming still present on the property, ancient oaks sheltering the historical continuity of over 130 years of family farming.
