Big Basin Vineyards is terraced into a steep hillside first planted to grapevines by French immigrants more than 100 years ago. Our estate and our carefully selected partner vineyards are all located at sites in the Santa Cruz and Gabilan Mountains that are as beautiful as they are exceptional for grape growing. Our mission is to create New World wines with Old World soul—wines that reveal the complex nuances of our vineyards. We farm organically and practice minimal-intervention winemaking with the goal of producing wines that transparently and authentically express site and variety.