About Mauritson Family Winery
Mauritson Family Winery is one of Sonoma County's most historically deep and geologically dramatic wine estates. The Mauritson family's connection to this specific corner of Sonoma County goes back six generations to 1868, when the family first began growing grapes in the Dry Creek Valley. Great-great-great-grandfather S.P. Hallengren first planted vines on the Rockpile valley floor in 1884, shipping wine back to Sweden, establishing what would become one of California's most historically significant and geologically extraordinary vineyard locations.
The Army Corps of Engineers acquired most of the family's Rockpile land in the 1960s to create Lake Sonoma, forcing the family to sell at significant loss but leaving 700 ridgetop acres where the Healdsburg-Rogers Creek Fault runs directly through the vineyard. This geological drama, an active earthquake fault bisecting the vineyard, gives Rockpile Zinfandel a structural intensity and mineral character unlike anything produced from valley floor or benchland terrain.
Clay Mauritson returned from college in the mid-1990s, honed his winemaking at Kenwood, Taft Street, and Dry Creek Vineyards, and released the inaugural Mauritson Dry Creek Zinfandel in 1998. Today the three-AVA program, single-vineyard releases from Dry Creek, Alexander, and Rockpile, with a Wine Library seated tasting including cheese and charcuterie represents one of Sonoma County's most compelling and historically grounded cellar experiences.
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Six Generations FarmingThe Mauritson family has farmed Sonoma County since 1868.
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Rockpile SpecialistA leader in Rockpile AVA Zinfandel and Cabernet, high-elevation, rugged terroir.
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Dog-Friendly TastingA welcoming, casual Dry Creek Road tasting room.
A historic Sonoma farming family with one of the leading programs in Rockpile and Dry Creek Valley.
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Featured Wines
Zinfandel
Rockpile Zinfandel
Rockpile AVA Estate
The Mauritson signature, six-generation family farming on ridge land where the Healdsburg-Rogers Creek Fault bisects the vineyard. Rockpile Zinfandel of extraordinary structural intensity and mineral character from one of California's most dramatically situated wine sites.
Zinfandel
Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel
Dry Creek Valley Estate
Six generations of Mauritson Dry Creek Valley farming in a single wine, estate benchland Zinfandel showing the warm, structured, food-compatible character that 150+ years of accumulated family terroir knowledge consistently produces.
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc
Dry Creek Valley Estate
Estate Dry Creek Sauvignon Blanc from the Mauritson family's multi-generation Dry Creek property, bright, fresh, citrus-forward, and ideal with the cheese and charcuterie that accompany the Wine Library seated tasting experience.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Alexander Valley Estate
Mauritson's Alexander Valley expression completing the three-AVA single-vineyard program, warm-climate estate Cab from the family's Alexander Valley farming relationships alongside the celebrated Rockpile and Dry Creek Zinfandel lineup.
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Wine Library Seated Tasting
Taste the wines at Mauritson Family Winery in the Rockpile AVA. Mon, Wed to Sun 10am to 5pm.
$50
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