About Story Winery
Story Winery is named for Ann Story — a Vermont pioneer woman who became legendary for her tenacity and survival skills after the 1775 death of her husband left her alone with five children on a wilderness homestead in the Green Mountains during the Revolutionary War. Ann Story's strength and determination became a regional legend, her name carried westward by families who admired the qualities she represented.
Established in 1973, Story Winery is one of Amador County's most historically founding Zinfandel estates, with some of the oldest Zinfandel vine age in the Shenandoah Valley. The Bell Road estate produces old-vine Zinfandel, Mission, Grenache, and Barbera from estate vineyard blocks that include pre-Prohibition plantings — vines old enough to have seen the entirety of California's twentieth-century wine history.
The daily walk-in experience on Bell Road is one of Amador County's most genuinely historic wine tourism stops.