Balestrieri Family Farm
AVA · San Francisco Bay
verified · TTB List of Permittees
Editorial profile
Balestrieri Family Farm is a small family farm and winery in Briones, in Contra Costa County, on land the family began developing around 2017 with 15 acres of vines and 5 acres of olives. Owner Kevin Balestrieri's family carries a winemaking and olive-oil-pressing tradition back to his great-grandfather in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
The farm's small estate program centers on Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah — bottled separately, as reserve tier wines, and blended together as the BFF Red Blend — alongside a Viognier. The farm's own website is currently gated behind bot-detection (a CAPTCHA challenge) and could not be fetched live; the wines above are drawn from the Internet Archive's captures of the site.
estate acres
as stated by the producer
Facts read from web.archive.org
What's on file
Address
6140 ALHAMBRA VALLEY ROAD UNIT B
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal6140 ALHAMBRA VALLEY ROAD UNIT B, MARTINEZ
The ground it sits on
AVA · San Francisco Bay
6.5
pH, 1:1 water
16.6cm
, whole profile
119cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 1064 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 5.6%
- 4.7%
- 4.3%
- 3.5%
- 3.4%
1064 map units · soil described over 84.5% of the region’s area · 21.2% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 65% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
blend · Contra Costa County
A blend of the farm's own Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.
4 of 4 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.