Fred Cline began making wine in 1982 at a small ranch in Oakley, California, and then purchased a 350-acre horse farm in the Carneros region of Sonoma Valley in 1989. The first vintages were from ...

Germans and Hungarians were among Sonoma’s earliest winemakers, but it was Italians who put Sonoma on the world wine map. They planted ... Italy and recognized the region’s promising vineyard ...