Pinot Country

producerHanzell Vineyards

38.00°N38.25°N38.50°NLos CarnerosRussian River ValleyWilliams SelyemLos CarnerosRussian River ValleyHanzell Vineyards20 km
Hanzell Vineyards, and what else this directory knows within 90 km.

James Zellerbach planted two acres of pinot noir and four of chardonnay above Sonoma in 1953, then built a cellar copying Burgundy's methods — French oak, temperature control, inert gas. California winemaking followed him.

When the door opens

Nobody has published this one's days where this project could read them. That is a gap here, not a locked door — write ahead, and see the finder for the cellars that do publish.

Facts

countryUnited States
established1953
regionSonoma County, California
addressSonoma, CA Cited
where38.3200, -122.4400 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Numbers somebody published

Pinot noir first planted · 19532 acres — Hanzell Vineyards

Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.

Near here

Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.

Its kin

the vinePinot noirAmong the earliest serious American plantings after Prohibition.practiceNeutral oakThe barrel question he answered by importing the barrels.and of this page it says: Which imported French barrels to California and started the argument there.

Who points back

person · says of this pageAndré TchelistcheffA contemporary experiment in importing Burgundian cellar practice.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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