Before there were vineyards in every valley north of San Francisco, before Napa and Sonoma were household names before there was a California wine world at all, there was Buena Vista.
Founded in 1857, and spanning from Sonoma and into Napa, Buena Vista is California’s first premium winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Today, the legend has been re-born under the vision of Jean-Charles Boisset.
Just outside the town of Sonoma, the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark, and home to our Winery, one of our Tasting Rooms, and Visitor’s Center. Chateau Buena Vista, located in the heart of downtown Napa, is the realization of a dream to re-establish the winery with a permanent destination in Napa Valley. Housed in the 1929 Gordon Building, the art deco inspired Tasting Room brings the experience of Champagne and Caviar with Cabernet and Chocolate to guests.
Buena Vista has been a long-held dream, as I have always been charmed by the oldest stones of the California wine world. We revere its history as California’s first, and finest, winery.
Jean-Charles Boisset
Proprietor
Our History & Legacy
Buena Vista Winery has a rich, delicious heritage as the first premium-and certainly the most colorful of all of the wineries in California. And its founder, the self-proclaimed “Count of Buena Vista,” Agoston Haraszthy, was a vivacious and eccentric pioneer with a veritable love and unending commitment to California wine.
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Our Vineyards
From spectacular sites in the Napa Valley to the varied terroir of Sonoma County, our wine-growing team has brought together a collection of sites that express the culmination of The Count’s pioneering work in viniculture.
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Winemaking
Through traditional techniques as well as modern enological knowledge, we make wines that tell the story of viniculture from the historic to the modern with the aim of truly reflecting the character and style of each grape and vineyard.
Buena Vista Winery was announced by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Sonoma Index-Tribune as the Best Winery in the 2024 Sonoma Valley People’s Choice Awards!
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