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Editorial profile
Bernardo Winery is the oldest continuously operating family-owned winery in Southern California, founded in 1889 on the former La Cañada de San Bernardo Spanish land grant in what is now Rancho Bernardo / North Poway, San Diego. The Rizzo family has owned and run it since 1927, having kept it alive through Prohibition by producing sacramental wine.
What was once a much larger commercial vineyard has narrowed over successive land sales to a compact 13-acre property with 5 acres still under vine, now anchoring a small village of shops, an artist colony, and a restaurant around the original winery buildings. The wine list draws on San Diego County fruit for a wide, unfussy range of still varietals — Sangiovese, Grenache, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Vermentino — alongside a couple of sparkling and fortified wines finished outside the county.
Facts read from bernardowinery.com
What's on file
Address
13330 PASEO DEL VERANO NORTE
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal13330 PASEO DEL VERANO NORTE, SAN DIEGO
The ground it sits on
AVA · South Coast
6.6
pH, 1:1 water
11.1cm
, whole profile
89cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 612 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 21.5%
- 6.8%
- 4.0%
- 4.0%
- 3.2%
612 map units · soil described over 89.5% of the region’s area · 17.5% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 75% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
A heritage white blend named for the estate's early style rather than a single grape.
A Mediterranean white grown in the winery's San Diego County vineyards.
A proprietary-named white from the estate list.
A barrel-fermented Chardonnay bottled under its own name.
A proprietary-named rosé-style wine.
A heritage red blend carrying the winery's traditional house name.
blend · San Diego County
A two-grape blend listed under both names on the estate's own list.
A proprietary-named red from the estate list.
A sweet, lightly-pressed style made from Merlot.
A dessert wine named for a family member.
A sparkling wine produced for the estate outside San Diego County.
A sparkling red counterpart to Oro di Bernardo.
A fortified wine in the estate's dessert-wine range.
50 Year Special Reserve Tawny Port
A long-aged tawny-style fortified wine.
22 of 22 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.