707-963-1707 | 1450 Silverado Trail S, Rutherford
Although the property has been planted to grapes since 1881, the first vintage of the Terraces wine was in 1985, a Zinfandel by the founder of the Terraces Winery, Wayne Hogue (died in 2013 at 89). Hogue (an investment consultant from San Francisco) purchased 22 acres of land in 1974 from the previous owners, the Werle family who had owned this property since 1920. An existing old Zinfandel vineyard produced grapes which were sold to Caymus Winery in the early 1980s. Charlie Wagner, owner of Caymus at the time encouraged Wayne to produce his own wine so he did with the 1985 vintage of Zinfandel, and it was at Caymus winery where Hogue made the first commercial wines bottled under the Terraces label.
In 1991 he built The Terraces Winery on site. And in 1993 Timm and Sharon purchased the adjacent Quarry Hill Vineyard and through a partnership with Beringer Winery began replanting the vineyards (the grapes were sold to Beringer for some time) and in 2001 purchased The Terraces Winery and property – creating two contiguous properties. A spring was used by Native American peoples during their time on this property; today it is the source for their water (from a well).
