About Roche Winery
Joe and Genevieve Roche's 1982 Carneros estate — one of the founding wineries of the Carneros AVA, producing estate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Merlot
Roche Winery is one of the original founding estates of the Carneros AVA — established by Joe and Genevieve Roche in 1982, at a time when the Carneros appellation was still being developed as a formal designation and the cool bay-influenced terroir between Sonoma and Napa was only beginning to attract serious wine investment.
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Roche Winery isRoche Winery is one of the original founding estates of the Carneros AVA — established by Joe and Genevieve Roche in 1982, at a time when the Carneros appellation was still being developed as a formal designation and the cool bay-influenced terroir between Sonoma and Napa was only beginning to attract serious wine investment.
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The Roche family'sThe Roche family's early commitment to the Carneros terrain helped establish the foundational understanding of what this specific cool-climate, bay-influenced growing environment could produce in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
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The Arnold DriveThe Arnold Drive hilltop estate commands sweeping views across the Sonoma Valley floor to the Mayacamas range and San Pablo Bay — views that have been a cornerstone of the Roche visitor experience since the winery's founding year.
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Featured Wines
Pinot Noir
Estate Pinot Noir
Carneros Estate
Roche's estate Carneros Pinot Noir from the founding-era 1982 property — one of the earliest estate Pinot Noir programs in the Carneros AVA, showing the bay-influenced cool-climate character that Joe and Genevieve Roche identified as Carneros' defining quality before the appellation formally existed.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Estate Chardonnay
Carneros Estate
Founding-era estate Carneros Chardonnay from Roche's 1982 Arnold Drive hilltop property — cool, mineral, and reflecting over 40 years of accumulated understanding of what bay-influenced Carneros cool-climate farming produces in California's most popular white variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Estate Merlot
Carneros Estate
Roche's estate Carneros Merlot from the founding-era hilltop property — showing the plush, food-compatible character that cool bay-influenced Carneros terrain produces in this Bordeaux variety when farmed with the patience and accumulated knowledge of a four-decade estate program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay (Late Harvest)
Late Harvest Chardonnay
Carneros Estate
Roche's most distinctive sweet wine expression — Late Harvest Carneros Chardonnay from the bay-influenced estate showing what the most carefully selected late-season botrytis-affected blocks of the 1982 property produce in the most celebratory and dessert-appropriate format.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Carneros Founding Estate Walk-In
Daily walk-in at one of the Carneros AVA's founding estates (1982) — estate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Merlot with sweeping bay and valley views from the Arnold Drive hilltop in one of the most historically grounded and personally accessible Carneros wine experiences available.
$25
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