About Saracina Vineyards
Saracina Vineyards is the most comprehensively sustainable and agriculturally diverse wine estate along the Highway 101 wine corridor between Sonoma County and the Mendocino coast. John Fetzer, the former CEO of Fetzer Vineyards who sold that company in 1992 and spent a decade positioning himself to build something more personally authentic, launched Saracina in 2001 with a vision shaped by 30 years of organic farming advocacy: a working ranch where wine, olive oil, honey, and genuine biodiversity coexist as an integrated agricultural system.
The 600-acre Hopland property is extraordinary in its scope: 300 acres of sustainably farmed vineyards, 120-year-old olive orchards that produce estate olive oil, an organic vegetable garden, a butterfly garden, domesticated livestock including alpacas and miniature goats, and nearly 3 million honeybees whose hives promote the property's natural pollination. Most distinctively, Saracina is home to the first wine caves ever built in Mendocino County, an architectural commitment to the property's wine seriousness that visitors describe as the most impressive feature of an already impressive estate.
The wine program, guided by winemaker Alex MacGregor, produces Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, and Rhône-variety blends under the Saracina label alongside the quirkier Atrea brand for experimental Rhône blends. Named after a centuries-old farmhouse in Tuscany, Saracina aims to capture what Mendocino wine country looked like 'before the crowds discovered Napa Valley.'
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Saracina Vineyards isSaracina Vineyards is the most comprehensively sustainable and agriculturally diverse wine estate along the Highway 101 wine corridor between Sonoma County and the Mendocino coast.
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John Fetzer,John Fetzer, the former CEO of Fetzer Vineyards who sold that company in 1992 and spent a decade positioning himself to build something more personally authentic, launched Saracina in 2001 with a vision shaped by 30 years of organic farming advocacy: a working ranch where wine, olive oil, honey, and genuine biodiversity coexist as an integrated agricultural system.
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The 600-acre HoplandThe 600-acre Hopland property is extraordinary in its scope: 300 acres of sustainably farmed vineyards, 120-year-old olive orchards that produce estate olive oil, an organic vegetable garden, a butterfly garden, domesticated livestock including alpacas and miniature goats, and nearly 3 million honeybees whose hives promote the property's natural pollination.
"John Fetzer's 600-acre Mendocino County organic ranch, the first wine caves in Mendocino County, 120-year-old olive gro"
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Featured Wines
Chardonnay
Estate Chardonnay
Mendocino County Estate
From Saracina's sustainably farmed Hopland estate, organic Mendocino Chardonnay showing the mineral freshness and food-friendly depth of a 600-acre ranch that John Fetzer designed to let terroir speak without intervention.
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
Mendocino County Estate
Organic estate Mendocino Pinot Noir from the Hopland ranch, showing the earthier, more savory character that Mendocino County's cooler inland valley climate produces versus the more coastal Sonoma County expressions.
Rosé (Grenache)
Rosé of Grenache
Mendocino County Estate
Estate Grenache Rosé from the Saracina organic ranch, the most Provençal and food-friendly of the Rhône-variety program that John Fetzer uses to highlight Mendocino's capacity for Southern French variety expression.
Rhône Blend
Atrea Rhône Blend
Mendocino County
Saracina's experimental Rhône-variety second label, 'interesting, quirky' Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre blends that explore the Rhône variety potential that Mendocino County's warm valleys consistently produce.
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Cave & Ranch Tasting
Daily tasting including access to Mendocino County's first wine caves, estate Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Rhône varieties with optional ranch exploration: 120-year-old olive groves, alpacas, miniature goats, organic gardens, and 3 million honeybees on a 600-acre working ranch.
$30
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