Deerfield Ranch Winery is a small family owned winery in the heart of Sonoma Valley in the town of Kenwood. The winery is open for tasting between 10:30 and 4:30 every day by appointment and walk-ons are welcome. The tasting room is in the center of a spectacular 23,000 square foot cave that stays a constant 60° year round.
Robert and PJ Rex, the founders and owners have been making wine for 50 years. Starting in their garage in Berkeley in 1972 they moved to Sonoma Valley in 1982 to pursue their passion. Their beautiful hilltop retreat, the Deerfield Ranch, where you can schedule Estate Tastings with Robert and PJ, is the home of their first Sonoma Winery. The larger winery on the Sonoma Highway in Kenwood started production in 2005 and was opened to the public in 2008.
Deerfield makes a large selection of wines, most of them available on this app. Extended bottle aged Library wines are released from time to time. Joining the mailing list will include your in announcements of these rare releases. Winemakers, Robert Rex and Cecilia Valdivia and their team make small batches of wine from their own estate vineyards and more than 20 small growers throughout Sonoma County. As Robert says, "Each varietal of wine grapes needs a particular terroir to thrive. Sonoma County, with its diversity of micro climates affords us as winemakers the opportunity source the best grapes from the best places. We work closely with the grower to produce the best grapes for the perfect wine."
Deerfield Ranch Winery is a certified organic grower and winery. They farm using biodynamic principles and have developed winemaking methods and protocols that produce wines very low in Sulfites, which can cause allergic reactions, and low in histamines, which can cause headaches and contribute to hangovers. The process results in what Deerfield coined, long before it became faddish, Clean Wine®. They have it trademarked. The other benefit of these Deerfield origin techniques is that the wines are more focused, more true to the grape varietal and longer lived. Deerfield wines are fruit forward, expertly balanced and have soft tannins and low acid. Many of their wines are blends. Robert says it’s like cooking. You never has just one ingredient With each varietal exhibiting a flavor focus on a different part of your palate, blends are often the most captivating.
You can taste the passion.