Open:Â Year Round
Christopher Creek Winery is a small, family owned winery with a long history of producing award winning, estate bottled, and hand crafted wines, with annual production around 4,000 cases. Located in Healdsburg, California on 11 rolling acres in the famous Russian River Valley AVA, with another 27 acres planted high on Bradford Mountain in Dry Creek AVA. Our first grape vines were planted in 1972, with the winery opening up shortly thereafter in 1974. Those first vines are still producing exceptional wines, and can be enjoyed daily as our Reserve Petite Syrah and Reserve Syrah.
Our Specialty
Christopher Creek has earned hundreds of awards for its wines since 1974 with the legendary success of our Petite Sirah, Syrah, and Cabernet Franc leading the way. Today, we have expanded our portfolio to include Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Viognier, Port and Chocolate Bliss. Growing quality grapes is the primary focus in developing great wines, so each of our wines are hand harvest and hand crafted by our artisan wine maker, Mike Brunson, to ensure quality.
With the growing interest in the Rhone style wines, Christopher Creek offers the opportunity to taste wines produced from old vines. The vineyard, located in the Northeastern part of the Russian River appellation, where the climate is warmer, produces some of the best Syrah and Petite Sirah in the area.
Our 2005 Russian River Estate Bottled Syrah is a "Best of Class-Gold Medal Winner" and our 2004 Dry Creek "Finlay's Vineyard" Cabernet is a Multiple Gold and Silver Medal Winner. Our 2006 Russian River "Catie's Corner" Viognier and 2006 Russian River Estate Bottled Petite Sirah are Double Gold Medal Winners. Zinfandels produced by Christopher Creek are consistently "Best of Class", "Best of Show", Gold and Silver Medal Winners. Our Petite Sirahs are legendary winners with over 45 Medals and "Best of Class-Gold Medals" during the past ten years.
