About Yorkville Cellars
Yorkville Cellars is a dedicated estate winery in the cool, high-elevation Yorkville Highlands AVA in southern Mendocino County, producing wines that reflect the character of diverse volcanic and sedimentary soils at elevations up to 1,700 feet. Yorkville Cellars is named for the village — Yorkville, the small Mendocino County Highway 128 community whose English-h. The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned Yorkville Cellars a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.
The Yorkville Highlands growing environment shapes everything Yorkville Cellars produces. Diverse volcanic and sedimentary soils at elevations up to 1,700 feet define the estate's vineyard character, contributing the structure, natural acidity, and terroir specificity that distinguish the finest wines from this appellation. Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Rhône varieties form the backbone of the portfolio, with each variety expressing a distinct facet of the estate's unique growing conditions. Winemaking at Yorkville Cellars prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.
Visitors to Yorkville Cellars can expect a genuine and unhurried tasting experience that reflects the estate's commitment to quality and hospitality. The tasting room provides an authentic introduction to the estate wines and the Yorkville Highlands appellation. Whether visiting for a focused flight or a deeper exploration of the estate's vineyard programs, Yorkville Cellars offers the kind of direct producer experience that wine tourism in California wine country is built on — knowledgeable, welcoming, and genuinely connected to the land and the wines it produces.
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Yorkville Cellars isYorkville Cellars is named for the village — Yorkville, the small Mendocino County Highway 128 community whose English-heritage name carries both the York (the ancient Roman and Viking city of Eoforwic) and the -ville (French for village, town).
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The Yorkville HighlandsThe Yorkville Highlands AVA is one of California's most recently established appellations, its higher elevation (1,500-2,600 feet) and cool maritime-influenced temperatures creating conditions markedly different from the warmer Mendocino Valley floor.
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Yorkville Cellars producesYorkville Cellars produces Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Petit Verdot from Yorkville Highlands estate vineyard blocks with the high-elevation organic farming philosophy that the estate has practiced since its 1994 founding.
"The 1994 Yorkville Highlands Mendocino County Yorkville-English-York-heritage-village-naming Malbec and Cabernet Sauvign"
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Yorkville Highlands Malbec
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Yorkville's English-York-heritage-village Yorkville Highlands Malbec — the Argentine variety at one of California's highest elevation Mendocino County estate vineyards, cool maritime organic farming.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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Yorkville Cellars' York-heritage-village Cabernet — the Bordeaux variety from the Yorkville Highlands' cool high-elevation maritime-influenced organic estate.
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Yorkville Highlands Organic Walk-In
Daily walk-in at the English-York-heritage-village-naming Yorkville Highlands founding estate — Yorkville Cellars Malbec and Cabernet from certified organic high-elevation Mendocino County terrain. Dog-friendly, picnic, family-welcoming.
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