Mauritson

The Mauritson family has been growing grapes in the Dry Creek Valley since 1868 when our great-great-great grandfather first planted vines in what is now the Rockpile region. The family's Rockpile homestead and sheep ranch grew to 4,000 acres by the early 1960s when all but 700 ridgetop acres were acquired by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop Lake Sonoma.
Clay Mauritson was determined to add winemaking to the family business and released the inaugural Mauritson Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel in 1998. Today, our family still manages many acres of vineyards across Sonoma County. We produce boutique wines, using only select vineyards that truly exhibit a sense of place.
Each harvest, fruit from the best sites throughout the Dry Creek and Alexander Valleys is reserved for our Appellation Series Wines. These wines showcase the fruit forward floral and spice-driven characteristics attributed to these appellations.
Vineyards in the Rockpile appellation thrive within a setting that includes volcanic soil, rocky slopes, an earthquake fault and howling winds. Moderate temperatures and low moisture balance the extremes of this world-class growing region, producing limited yields of exceptionally concentrated fruit.
Rockpile has proven ideal for the development of our distinctly different hillside vineyards for our single-vineyard wines that include Rockpile Zinfandels and Bordeaux varietals. Rockpile wines are everything you’d expect: intense, powerful, and complex.