The property is small and nothing fancy but more likely than not, your wine tasting will be led by the vintner himself, who came to Sonoma with nothing and built this small winery with his own hands. He's a great host who truly understands and loves wine. It's a delightful experience and the wine is priced very reasonably compared to many other wineries in the area.

We are excited to offer private seated tastings and share our wines with you on the patio at Grand Cru Custom Crush.
Our new release of wines has recently received some great scores and reviews, and we can’t wait to share them with you!
Tastings will include our current release wines including Bucher Vineyard Pinot Noir, Pommard Clone Pinot Noir, Three Sixty Pinot Noir, and Sauvignon Blanc.

Taste our estate-grown Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs, Sauvignon Blanc and Rosé at Grand Cru Custom Crush.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Big Basin Vineyards was founded in 1998 on an historic site in the Santa Cruz Mountains next to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The old ranch property was first settled in the late 1800s. Wine grape cultivation had been started by French immigrants by the early 1900s and continued until 1965 when the property was sold by Justin Lacau, who had named the property "Frenchy's Ranch", to a timber company. By the 1990s, all that remained of the vineyards were redwood stakes and scattered vines hidden by brush and poison oak bushes. The mission has been to restore this historic vineyard site using modern, organic viticultural methods. The winery building was completed in December 2003 on the same site as the original 1890s house/winery structure which burned down in the 1970s. It is a 'Monitor'-style barn with a timber frame construction built using redwood selectively harvested from the estate.

The name Wild Horse Winery is a tribute to the herds of mustangs that once roamed the hills above the vineyards. And it is quite possibly that the owners also had in mind the Cal Poly mascot – a galloping horse ~