Brian Arden Wines

Our story begins in the early 1950’s when Arden lived on a farm in Northern California near the small town of Kelseyville. There were prunes and pears mostly but in 1961 Arden’s father purchased a vineyard from his aunt. Not just any vineyard, an ancient Zinfandel vineyard on a raised lake bed with vines so old that the historical record ends in the mid 1880’s. They were mature and producing then, so there’s no knowing when they were actually planted. This property sits along the Silverado Trail corridor into beautiful Calistoga at the foot of the Palisade Mountains. With a clean slate of 2.25 acres to build their dream, the parcel was purchased and Brian and Arden set in to make that dream a reality. Four years later, in 2014, the winery was ready for its first harvest in the new building with state-of-the-art equipment. In May of 2015 the hospitality center was opened and the pouring began with the opening of a 2008 Cabernet Franc.