Welcome to Santiago Canyon Winery
Santiago Canyon Winery is a multi-generation family owned Orange County California based boutique winery. We create hand crafted, world-class award winning wines produced from small blocks of premium fruit, sourced from family owned vineyards in California, Washington and Oregon. Our award winning approach to wine making is to carefully select and source ultra-premium fruit from time-proven, sustainably farmed and organically certified vineyards for each varietal we choose to make.
Our wines are a comprehensive exploration of the California, Oregon and Washington appellations. Drawing fruit from selected vineyards, the wines are a composite of vineyards stretching from the rolling hills of Paso Robles in the south to the Columbia River plateau in the north. Founder and winemaker, Jon Theurich - (JT), is dedicated to producing wines that reflect the true essence and flavor of each terroir, sourcing vineyards that uniquely define the distinctive characteristics by each varietal. Vineyards are chosen for proven quality from the best known districts known to grow highest quality wine grapes using organic dry farming and sustainable vineyard agricultural practices.
By way of example, our Gold Medal award winning Syrah is crafted from grapes grown in the Alexander Valley AVA in Sonoma. Our award winning Chardonnay grapes come from the Carneros region of southern Sonoma, influenced by the persistent cooling breezes of the San Francisco bay. Our award winning Cabernet grapes are grown in the warmer climates of Napa Valley's world-renown Rutherford AVA. Our award winning Zinfandel grapes come from Arroyo Grande, and our Pinot Noir grapes are from the famous Santa Rita Hills.
Because our approach is to source our grapes from award winning vineyards in the best AVA for each particular varietal, our wines are rich in the individual characteristic the varietal is known for, be it fruit, spice, earth or mineral flavours and structures. Santiago Canyon Winery founder Jon Theurich, continually strives to craft perfectly balanced and elegantly refined wines using traditional time-honored winemaking methods developed in Europe and California.
"By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt." - Thomas Jefferson