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Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate

Russian River Valley / Fulton · Russian River Valley AVA
👨‍👩‍👧 Family Friendly 🌄 Scenic Views 🍽 Food Pairing 🥂 Estate Wines
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Hours
Daily 10am–5pm
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Phone
(707) 571-8100
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Tasting Fee
From $35
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Reservations
Recommended
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Est.
1982

About Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate

Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate is the flagship property of one of America's most successful family wine empires — and one of Sonoma County's most genuinely ambitious culinary-wine destinations. Jess Jackson — the San Francisco attorney who purchased his first vineyard in 1974 and built Kendall-Jackson into a national brand through the now-iconic Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay — established the Fulton Road estate as the experiential heart of the KJ family vision: a place where wine, food, agriculture, and education converge in a single comprehensive destination.

The 120-acre California Culinary Garden — one of the most elaborate sensory garden programs available at any California winery — features varietal herb plantings matched to specific wines, vegetable gardens that supply the estate's culinary program, and an educational design that allows visitors to experience the aromatic and flavor connections between garden plants and wine varieties in a physically immersive way. The Food & Wine Magazine-recognized culinary pairing program builds on this garden foundation to create one of Sonoma County's most thoughtfully integrated wine-and-food educational experiences.

The estate also serves as the production home for the Stonestreet Mountain Estate wines and other premium Jackson Family Wines expressions, making the Fulton Road property one of Northern California's most comprehensive single-site introductions to a diverse family wine portfolio.

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Kendall-Jackson Wine EstateKendall-Jackson Wine Estate is the flagship property of one of America's most successful family wine empires — and one of Sonoma County's most genuinely ambitious culinary-wine destinations.
Jess Jackson —Jess Jackson — the San Francisco attorney who purchased his first vineyard in 1974 and built Kendall-Jackson into a national brand through the now-iconic Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay — established the Fulton Road estate as the experiential heart of the KJ family vision: a place where wine, food, agriculture, and education converge in a single comprehensive destination.
The 120-acre CaliforniaThe 120-acre California Culinary Garden — one of the most elaborate sensory garden programs available at any California winery — features varietal herb plantings matched to specific wines, vegetable gardens that supply the estate's culinary program, and an educational design that allows visitors to experience the aromatic and flavor connections between garden plants and wine varieties in a physically immersive way.
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Featured Wines

Chardonnay
Grand Reserve Chardonnay
California Estate
The KJ premium Chardonnay expression — Grand Reserve from the estate's most carefully selected California Chardonnay sources, showing the mineral depth and food-first restraint that distinguishes the premium tier of America's most widely distributed Chardonnay estate program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Estate Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley Estate
Kendall-Jackson's Fulton Road RRV estate Pinot Noir — cool-climate, food-friendly, and produced at the flagship property that Jess Jackson established as the most complete expression of his California wine estate vision.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
California
The wine that changed American wine drinking — Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay has been America's best-selling Chardonnay for over three decades, introducing millions of Americans to California Chardonnay with its distinctive off-dry, food-compatible style.
Estate
★★★★☆
Various (Estate Reserve)
Garden Block Reserve
Russian River Valley Estate
KJ's most estate-specific expression — Garden Block Reserve wines from the specific Fulton Road property blocks that surround the 120-acre California Culinary Garden, connecting the estate food program directly to the specific terroir of the wine in every glass.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Culinary Garden Tasting
Daily tasting with access to the 120-acre California Culinary Garden — estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir paired with seasonal garden provisions in the Food & Wine Magazine-recognized culinary pairing program at Jess Jackson's flagship Fulton Road estate.
$35
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Garden & Wine Pairing Experience
The most complete KJ estate experience — guided 120-acre Culinary Garden walk with herb-matching wine education followed by a multi-course estate wine-and-food pairing using garden produce in the most comprehensive agricultural wine education available in Northern Sonoma County.
From $75

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