Tag: Cline Cellars

At the gateway to Sonoma wine country in the Carneros AVA, Cline Cellars, Jacuzzi Family Vineyards, and The Olive Press provide visitors with a warm and wonderful welcome to wine country.

Owner Fred Cline’s love for winemaking began as a child when he would visit his grandfather, Valeriano Jacuzzi, at his Oakley, California farm and help turn the fruit into wine. In 1981, Fred founded Cline Cellars in Oakley. When he married his wife Nancy in 1986, they relocated the winery to a historic 350-acre property in Sonoma, the original site of the 21st and final California Mission. Fred’s innovation and experimentation produced distinctive Rhône-style wines and rich Zinfandels for which he has since garnered much acclaim. In 2004, Cline Cellars was named one of Wine Spectator’s 50 Great Producers Every Wine Lover Should Know.