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| 9282 W Dry Creek Rd, Healdsburg, CA, 95448 | |
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Specialties
Estate-grown and produced wine that is certified organic by the CCOF. We also have an organic farm.
History
Established in 1973.
Lou and Susan acquired an old prune orchard in Dry Creek Valley in the early 1970’s. Lou had just completed a course of study in Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis and Susan was pursuing an interest in primary school education with a teaching position in Sebastopol. Neither had an inkling of the direction their disparate passions would take — with the ultimate creation of a family farm and winery in the ashes of those prune trees.
Meet the Business Owner
Lou P.
Business Owner
Lou began his mid-life career as a grape grower and vintner in the early 1970s, fortified by a
degree in business from Stanford University and a year’s course of study with the old guard
of the UC Davis Viticulture Department. He and his wife Susan founded Preston Vineyards
and Winery in Dry Creek Valley in 1973 where they applied a quirky blend of convention and
iconoclasm to produce unusual grapes and artisanal wines reflective of the time and that historic
watershed.
Their early wine project followed the realities of the pre-internet era which demanded a
presence in the wholesale market. Lou found himself traveling too often to shepherd too much
wine into too many markets; it was not sustainable. Change ultimately came in their fourth
decade of farming when Lou and Susan intentionally downsized the winery and began the
conversion of the property to organically-managed, diversified agriculture.
The rest of the story is yet unfolding: the Prestons’ efforts to integrate into one proper
