Gandona Winery

The legacy of Pritchard Hill began in the 1870s when Charles Pritchard homesteaded the top of the now-famous knoll and planted vines. At the time, the Northern Californian wine industry was lucrative and already supported by 139 major wineries whose wine and brandy crop was valued at more than two million dollars in gold. Pritchard’s success led to continued vine propagation on the hill and earned the area the nickname, Pritchard’s Hill.

Farming at Gandona Estate is based on long-term sustainability and enacting practices to support sustainable farming relative to the estate. For us, farming sustainably is not an end result, but instead an ongoing effort that will evolve over time to maintain and enhance the quality of air, soil and water at Gandona Estate. Our sustainable practices include water conservation and monitoring, erosion control, reduced-risk fungicides for mildew,...

We’re single-minded in our approach to ensuring quality. That’s why we do not purchase outside grapes and we custom-built a winery to control every stage of the grape growing and winemaking process.

The winery was completed in 2010 and was designed to embrace the best of both old- and new-world winemak- ing techniques. Adopting an old-world practice used by the legendary Chateaux of France, concrete fermenta- tion tanks were incorporat...