About Shenandoah Vineyards
Shenandoah Vineyards is the most historically founding-significance Amador County wine estate. Leon and Shirley Sobon purchased the Steiner Road Plymouth property in 1977 when Amador County was virtually unknown as a serious wine region and when the Shenandoah Valley's extraordinary old vine Zinfandel heritage plantings had not yet attracted the critical attention they now command.
The Amador County Shenandoah Valley — where some of California's oldest continuously producing Zinfandel vines were planted by Italian immigrant gold miners and farmers in the 1860s–1890s on the red volcanic clay soils of the Plymouth foothills — produces old vine Zinfandel of extraordinary concentrated and individually heritage-vine character that no other California growing environment replicates. Leon Sobon was among the first California winemakers to identify and cultivate the most genetically precious of these old vine Amador County Zinfandel heritage plantings.
The Sobon Estate and Shenandoah Vineyards labels — produced from some of the most carefully identified and most genetically individually old vine heritage Amador County Zinfandel, Barbera, and Mission plantings — represent the most personally founding-significance and Leon-Sobon-family-continuously-conducted old vine heritage Sierra Foothills appointment at the most accessible $10 walk-in pricing.