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Editorial profile
Kathryn Kennedy Winery is a small Cabernet Sauvignon specialist in Saratoga, on the inland side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Kathryn Kennedy planted eight acres of own-rooted Cabernet Sauvignon on her Saratoga property in 1973 and established the winery and brand in 1979, becoming one of the first California wineries to bear a woman's name; from 1979 to 1988 it produced only its Estate Cabernet, which remains the flagship, limited to roughly 600 cases a year and bottled under Kennedy's signature silver-and-black label.
The estate vineyard, reduced by residential development to under an acre, was certified organic by CCOF in 2007. Marty Mathis, named winemaker at 22 and later company president, has led winemaking since; the current lineup adds a broader Small Lot Cabernet drawn from Santa Cruz Mountains sites and a Sauvignon Blanc.
- Winemaker
- Marty Mathis
estate acres
as stated by the producer
Facts read from kathrynkennedywinery.com
What's on file
Address
13180 PIERCE RD
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal13180 PIERCE RD, SARATOGA
The ground it sits on
AVA · Santa Cruz Mountains
6.2
pH, 1:1 water
13.2cm
, whole profile
105cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 347 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 17.6%
- 9.3%
- 8.8%
- 7.5%
- 4.7%
347 map units · soil described over 98.0% of the region’s area · 4.1% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 88% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon · Santa Cruz Mountains
flagship bottling from the founder's original Saratoga estate vineyard, planted 1973; limited to about 600 cases per year
3 of 3 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.