An early pioneer was Bob Mullen, who like Emmett H. Rixford, had a "day job" with a passion for growing and making premium wines in Woodside that was and still is considered one of California’s great growing wine regions.

One of Bob’s neighbors on Kings Mountain Road had a backyard vineyard, and after the first-day picking grapes, he was hooked. Another friend had bought the historic La Questa property that allowed Bob and his volunteers to harvest the grapes producing the first bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in 1962.

The following year Woodside Vineyards was born with a bond number to sell wine to the local restaurants and markets. The first was Roberts Market in Woodside in 1966. Next, Bob assembled a small group of workers to bring back and manage other old vineyards in Woodside, and one notable was the Hopper Vineyard planted in 1895.

Today, Woodside Vineyards continues to grow and harvest wine grapes exclusively from over forty backyard vineyards sprinkled throughout Woodside and Portola Valley that are handmade into our line of rare premium wines.

The Santa Cruz Mountains reflect a unique mountain terroir with soil that is made up of decomposed rock, clay, loam, and limestone. The abundant mineral content gives our wine a fresh mineral character, balanced acidity producing wines that are complex in flavor with a long finish.