About Martin Ray Vineyards & Winery
The legacy of California winemaking legend Martin Ray continued — named for the eccentric Saratoga winemaker who was the first person to make single-v
Martin Ray Vineyards & Winery carries one of the most historically significant names in California wine history.
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Martin Ray VineyardsMartin Ray Vineyards & Winery carries one of the most historically significant names in California wine history.
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The original MartinThe original Martin Ray — an eccentric Saratoga winemaker who studied under Paul Masson and whose personal obsessions with single-varietal estate-bottled fine wine led him to produce the first labeled single-varietal Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in California history in the 1940s — mentored Robert Mondavi, influenced André Tchelistcheff, and laid the philosophical groundwork for the California estate wine movement that would flower two decades after his most productive work.
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Martin Ray's convictionMartin Ray's conviction that California wine deserved the same varietal specificity, estate-bottling rigor, and quality-without-compromise standards that the finest European wine producers applied — at a time when California wine was dominated by generic blends sold in bulk — was so far ahead of its era that he was largely dismissed as an eccentric by the California wine establishment while being privately admired by the winemakers he mentored who would go on to build the modern California wine renaissance.
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Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley / Martin Ray Estate
Named for the man who made California's first labeled single-varietal Pinot Noir — Martin Ray Russian River Valley Pinot Noir honoring the eccentric Saratoga pioneer who convinced Robert Mondavi and André Tchelistcheff that California could produce estate-quality single-varietal wine before the rest of the industry believed it was possible, mineral and food-first from fog-influenced Russian River Valley terrain.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Russian River Valley / Martin Ray Estate
Martin Ray's most historically legacy-honoring single-varietal California white — Russian River Valley Chardonnay named for the man who produced California's first labeled single-varietal estate Chardonnay in the 1940s, mineral and food-first in the most historically Chardonnay-legacy-honoring and California-wine-pioneering-personality-named appointment.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
Sonoma County / Martin Ray Estate
Martin Ray's most broadly accessible Sonoma County red — estate Cabernet honoring the California wine pioneer's most quality-without-compromise and estate-bottling-conviction-specifically-dedicated legacy in the most approachable and visitor-welcoming format of the most historically California-wine-pioneering-personality-named Russian River Valley estate appointment.
Estate
★★★★☆
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Book on Tock →California Pioneer Legacy Appointment
Appointment at the estate honoring California's most eccentric and pioneering winemaking personality — Martin Ray Russian River Valley Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the Santa Rosa estate named for the man who mentored Robert Mondavi, influenced André Tchelistcheff, and produced California's first labeled single-varietal estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the 1940s. The most historically California-wine-pioneering-personality-named appointment.
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