Skip to content
California Wine Atlas

Kendall-Jackson

Sub-AVA · Russian River Valley

Further reading: Producer's own site

verified · TTB List of Permittees

Editorial profile

Kendall-Jackson is a Sonoma County-founded, family-grown wine estate whose 1982 start was built on Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay — the wine that, per the producer's own history page, became the top-selling Chardonnay by retail dollar share in America and has held that position since.

That tier remains the base of a five-step ladder the company lays out on its own site: Vintner's Reserve (the everyday, ubiquitous-Chardonnay tier), Grand Reserve (a step up in vineyard selection, spanning Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir), Jackson Estate (single-vineyard, estate-grown bottlings named for specific sites such as Panorama Vineyard and Sable Mountain), Stature ("the pinnacle of Kendall-Jackson winemaking," launched in 1997 alongside winemaker Randy Ullom's appointment, who still holds the role), and Avant, a lighter, unoaked Chardonnay line. Across tiers, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir are the recurring varietal backbone, sourced from Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Anderson Valley, Santa Lucia Highlands and Knights Valley fruit.

Winemaker
Randy Ullom

Facts read from kj.com

What's on file

1982

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

5007 FULTON RD

Varieties

Chardonnay

Where it's registered

This boundaryClick to open

Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.

  • Principal5007 FULTON RD, FULTON
  • Also bonded600 MATTHEWS RD, LAKEPORT · Clear Lake
  • Also bonded5620 SKYLANE BLVD, SANTA ROSA
  • Also bonded37300 DOUD RD, SOLEDAD · Arroyo Seco

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Russian River Valley

6.0

pH, 1:1 water

17.8cm

, whole profile

129cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 181 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.0
2.2%
22.8%
available water
17.8cm
depth to restriction
129cm

Dominant

  • 14.5%
  • 13.5%
  • 8.6%
  • 8.3%
  • 6.3%

181 map units · soil described over 96.9% of the region’s area · 2.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 60% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

15 of 15 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.