About Narrow Gate Vineyards
Narrow Gate Vineyards is named from the Sermon on the Mount — Matthew 7:13-14, the passage where Jesus declares the narrow gate as the difficult path that leads to life rather than the wide, easy gate that leads to destruction. The biblical naming declares a winemaking philosophy: the difficult path, the demanding standards, the choice to make wine through the narrow gate rather than the easy commercial shortcut.
The Meder Road estate in the Fair Play district produces Zinfandel, Barbera, Petite Sirah, and Grenache from El Dorado County estate vineyards with the narrow-gate discipline the biblical name implies. The daily walk-in experience is dog-friendly, picnic-welcoming, and family-hospitable — the narrow-gate difficulty applied to the winemaking, not the hospitality.