Experience Moon Mountain
in Sonoma, California

Experience Los Chamizal

The terraced vineyards of Los Chamizal sweeping down a Sonoma hillside, ringed by oak woodland with the valley opening beyond.
A single vine-covered hill at the estate, rows wrapping the contour of the slope below stands of native oak.

A vineyard carved from the mountain.

In 1973, Peter Haywood drove up Gehricke Road and bought hard, rocky ground most had written off as unplantable. He named it Los Chamizal — Spanish for the thickets of hardwood — and terraced the slopes by hand.

The first vines went in the ground in 1976. Today the estate climbs the southern Mayacamas — the Moon Mountain District — farmed sustainably for small crops of intensely flavored fruit.

Come taste where the wine is grown.

  • Seated tastings of the current estate releases — poured on the terrace, or by the great-room fire when the fog rolls in.
  • A walk up into the terraced blocks, weather and harvest permitting, to see where the fruit is grown.
  • Small groups and no rush — usually with whoever happened to make the wine.
When
By appointment · Thu–Sun
Where
One mile up Gehricke Road

Stay among the vines at Casa de Chamizal, our private farmstay above the pool.

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One mile up Gehricke Road, above the town of Sonoma.

18000 Gehricke Road, Sonoma, California 95476 · Moon Mountain District AVA

By Air.

Six commercial airports and two private fields within easy reach.

San Francisco Bay & Sonoma County Air gateways to Los Chamizal Vineyard · Moon Mountain District Pacific Ocean 101 80 12 37 5 101 San Francisco Bay Sonoma County Napa Valley Sacramento Valley Santa Rosa Petaluma Napa San Francisco Oakland San Jose Sacramento STS Sonoma County 30 min APC Napa County 30 min O69 Petaluma · private 0Q3 Sonoma Skypark · private OAK Oakland Intl 1 hr 15 SFO San Francisco Intl 1 hr 30 SMF Sacramento Intl 1 hr 45 SJC San Jose Intl 2 hr Los Chamizal Moon Mountain · Sonoma N 0 15 30 mi
Distances are approximate driving times from the estate at 18000 Gehricke Road. Private fields suit small jet and turboprop arrivals.