About Thomas Fogarty Winery
Thomas Fogarty is the Stanford cardiovascular surgeon who invented the balloon embolectomy catheter, one of medicine's landmark devices, and spent the proceeds planting Pinot Noir and Chardonnay high on Skyline ridge above Portola Valley in 1981. The estate became a Santa Cruz Mountains reference, its high-elevation single-vineyard Pinots among the appellation's most site-transparent.
The redwood-framed winery's view over the Bay is among wine country's great panoramas, and the winemaking has stayed estate-driven and precise. A surgeon's precision, applied to a mountainside.
The catheter inventor's 1981 Skyline estate: surgeon-precise Pinot with the Bay Area's grandest tasting view.
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A landmark inventor,Fogarty's balloon catheter transformed vascular medicine.
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Skyline 1981,the ridge-top planting overlooks the whole Bay.
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Site-transparent Pinot,single-vineyard bottlings map the estate.
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The view,few California tasting rooms match the panorama.
"The catheter inventor's 1981 Skyline estate: surgeon-precise Pinot with the Bay Area's grandest tasting view."
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Taste the wines at Thomas Fogarty Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. By appointment only, reservations required.
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