About Lazy Creek Vineyards
Lazy Creek Vineyards is one of Anderson Valley's most historically rooted and scenically beautiful estate vineyards. Hans and Theresia Kobler first planted the 52-acre Philo Highway 128 property in 1972, making it one of the Anderson Valley's earliest commercial wine estates, with Pinot Noir and Gewürztraminer as the primary focus. The Kobler family maintained the property as both a working ranch and a vineyard for nearly three decades before selling to Josh and Mary Beth Chandler in 1999, who expanded to 40 acres. Don and Rhonda Carano of Ferrari-Carano Winery acquired the property in 2008 and maintain it as one of their premium Anderson Valley estate properties.
The Lazy Creek name reflects the property's pastoral character: the estate follows the banks of Lazy Creek through one of the most picturesque and sheltered sections of the Philo Highway 128 corridor, with the creek's moisture influencing the morning mist that gives the estate its distinctive cool-climate growing conditions. The 52-acre property is farmed with organic principles that honor the Kobler family's original sustainable farming vision.
Estate Gewürztraminer, the variety that Hans Kobler identified in 1972 as particularly well-suited to the Lazy Creek terroir, remains the estate's most distinctive expression, showing the aromatic complexity and food-friendly spice that the Anderson Valley's most sheltered and moisture-influenced microclimate consistently produces in this Alsatian variety.
