verified · producer's own site
Editorial profile
Rochioli Vineyards and Winery farms the same Westside Road benchland above the Russian River its family has worked since 1934, when Joe Rochioli Jr.'s parents settled the property (then called Fenton Acres). Joe Jr. planted French Pinot Noir clones in 1968 — an early planting of the variety in Russian River Valley — followed by Chardonnay; Sauvignon Blanc, planted earlier in 1959 alongside a short-lived Cabernet Sauvignon planting, rounds out the three varietals the estate still makes today.
The site's own wine page splits each of the three into two tiers: Estate wines, a blend across the property's single-vineyard lots sold in the tasting room, and Single Vineyard wines, small, site-specific lots sold only to customers on "The List" (currently full). Rochioli's fruit went to other producers for decades before the family started its own label.
- Winemaker
- Tom Rochioli
Facts read from rochioliwinery.com
What's on file
founded
as stated by the producer
Varieties
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
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
blend of estate single-vineyard lots, tasting-room release
blend of estate single-vineyard lots
blend of three vineyard sites, including an old-vine Sauvignon Blanc clone
allocated to The List (waitlist currently full per the site)
allocated to The List
Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
allocated to The List
6 of 6 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.