About Running Creek Ranch
Running Creek Ranch is named for the creek — the moving water that runs through the ranch property, the topographic feature that declares the estate's identity through its most immediate natural characteristic. Running water declares life: the creek's movement through the landscape feeds the vineyard's groundwater, shapes the terrain's drainage pattern, and provides the humidity influence that cool-climate Mendocino viticulture benefits from.
The Mendocino estate produces Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Gewürztraminer from Anderson Valley vineyard sources where the Pacific Ocean's marine influence through the Navarro River corridor creates cool-climate conditions of unusual precision. The running-creek topographic naming grounds the estate in the specific water feature that animates the landscape.