Navarro Vineyards

Navarro Vineyards is the most historically significant and personally beloved wine estate in the Anderson Valley. Ted Bennett and Deborah Cahn — back-to-the-land pioneers who purchased the Philo Highway 128 property in 1974 — spent fifty years proving that Mendocino County's sheltered inland valleys could produce world-class Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Chardonnay in a style of genuine elegance and food-first restraint.

The commitment to organic farming — established from the first vintage and maintained continuously for five decades — produces grapes of genuine purity that Navarro's minimal-intervention winemaking translates directly to the glass without commercial polish or correction. The Gewürztraminer in particular is recognized as one of California's finest expressions of this Alsatian variety: dry, floral, spiced, and showing the genuine cool-climate Anderson Valley character that the morning fog and afternoon warmth of the Navarro River corridor consistently produces.

The Navarro tasting experience is genuinely unique in California wine: complimentary tasting, daily walk-ins, dogs and families warmly welcomed, picnic grounds with the Anderson Valley view — and prices that reflect the winery's lifelong commitment to making genuinely good wine accessible to everyone who loves it. The Verjus (unfermented grape juice) and grape juices sold for non-drinkers and children complete a hospitality philosophy that has made Navarro one of California wine country's most genuinely beloved destinations.