About Melville Winery
Melville Winery is the direct family-owned expression of the Melville Vineyard, the most critically cited and most individual-block-specifically-famous Sta. Rita Hills vineyard source in Santa Barbara County. The Melville family established the Highway 246 Lompoc estate in 1996, and their vineyard quickly became the single most cited and most critically acclaimed Sta. Rita Hills designate source for producers including Brewer-Clifton, Babcock, and other Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir and Chardonnay specialists.
Visiting Melville Winery provides the most direct and family-conducted access to the vineyard whose name appears on labels produced by some of California's most critically acclaimed Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir specialists. The combination of personal family estate identity and the most historically critically-cited Sta. Rita Hills single-vineyard source creates a wine appointment of unusual historical significance and personal vineyard-identity resonance.
Melville runs two front doors: the Sta. Rita Hills estate where Ron Melville gambled on the region with his 1996 planting, and a State Street tasting room in Santa Barbara just blocks from the beach. Son Chad Melville makes the estate Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Chardonnay that anchor both.
