Kistler Vineyards
Sub-AVA · Russian River Valley
verified · TTB List of Permittees
Editorial profile
Kistler Vineyards is a Sonoma County producer whose own site describes it as "A Single Clone Chardonnay House," built around a range of single-vineyard Chardonnays drawn from Sonoma Valley, the Russian River Valley, Carneros and the Sonoma Coast, alongside a small production of single-vineyard Pinot Noir. The winery is allocation-only and sells almost entirely through a mailing list, which keeps its wines scarce in the open market. Kistler's estate Kistler Vineyard bottling anchors the range, with vineyard-designate wines such as Dutton Ranch and Vine Hill Road Chardonnay alongside broader multi-vineyard cuvees (Les Noisetiers, Cuvee Cathleen) that draw fruit from several of the estate's sites.
eCellar site — individual product pages return a generic "Wines - Kistler Vineyards" title rather than naming the wine, so specific bottlings above are listed editorially rather than cited to a page.
Facts read from kistlervineyards.com
What's on file
founded
as stated by the producer
Address
4707 VINE HILL RD
Varieties
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal4707 VINE HILL RD, SEBASTOPOL
- Also bonded7095 TRENTON-HEALDSBURG RD, FORESTVILLE
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
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
Russian River Valley Chardonnay
Chardonnay · Russian River Valley
Mailing-list-only producer of Burgundian-style Chardonnay, sold by allocation rather than through retail.
Kistler Vineyard Chardonnay
estate single-vineyard bottling; storefront is a JS-rendered eCellar site whose product pages do not name the wine in their own title
Dutton Ranch Chardonnay
Chardonnay · Russian River Valley
single-vineyard bottling
Vine Hill Road Chardonnay
single-vineyard bottling from the estate vineyard
Les Noisetiers Chardonnay
multi-vineyard Chardonnay cuvee
Cuvee Cathleen Chardonnay
multi-vineyard Chardonnay cuvee
Kistler Vineyard Pinot Noir
estate single-vineyard bottling
Cuvee Elizabeth Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir · Russian River Valley
vineyard-designate Pinot Noir cuvee
0 of 8 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.