LOMA PRIETA WINERY

Loma Prieta Winery was founded by original owners, attorneys Paul and Amy Kemp, in 2003. They began producing Gold medal Pinots from both the Estate vineyard and from the Saveria Vineyard in Corralitos: every single vintage of their Pinot Noir proved a winner. Then, Paul became besotted with Pinotage after discovering it in a Lodi vineyard where he was sourcing Viognier. He quickly began acquiring as much fruit as he could find, from nearly every available acre in California. So taken was he by this grape, a hybrid developed in South Africa in the 1930s by crossing Pinot Noir with Cinsault (a big, thick-skinned variety from the Southern Rhone), that he tore out his estate Merlot and Cabernet to plant Pinotage. Subsequently, he grafted over all of his Estate Pinot Noir to his new flame. Now, there are a whopping 52 acres of Pinotage in all of California. Compare that to nearly 95k of Cabernet Sauvignon, and you get the picture... There are very few wineries worldwide making Pinotage,..

Primary location: Los Gatos United States