Buena Vista Winery

Buena Vista Winery has a rich, delicious heritage as the first premium-and certainly the most colorful-of all of the wineries in California. And its founder, the self-proclaimed “Count of Buena Vista,” Agoston Haraszthy, was a vivacious and eccentric pioneer with a veritable love and unending commitment to California wine.

Surrounded by his own tales of intrigue and political exile, The Count immigrated from Europe in 1840 in pursuit of op...

Carneros is one of the handful of regions in California able to bring such grapes as Chardonnay and the finicky Pinot Noir to proper maturity. Its position at the top of San Pablo Bay makes Carneros – along with the Russian River Valley, coastal Sonoma and the Central Coast – a prime area for the production of wines with graceful elegance and specific regional character.

While the Carneros climate provides an amazing array of flavors and textures, it is in the winery that this palette of flavors is truly expressed. We are fortunate that our vineyards are in the heart of one of the most celebrated appellations in the world. Each and every step of our winemaking process is designed to articulate the exceptional character of Carneros fruit.

Crafting Carneros Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is an alluring challenge for...

Before there were vineyards in every valley north of San Francisco, before Napa and Sonoma were household names, before there was a California wine world at all, there was Buena Vista.  Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s first premium winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Today, the legend is being re-born under the vision of Jean-Charles Boisset. Just outside the town of Sonoma, the original winery is now a Californ...