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Bear Creek Vineyard Company

Los Gatos, Santa Cruz Mountains. A small family winery, founded in 1989.

Not confirmedChecked Nov 15, 2026, source1

Not confirmed

We couldn't confirm that Bear Creek Vineyard Company is still making wine3. A community history of Santa Cruz Mountains wineries believes it closed: its phone numbers are disconnected, and the latest vintage it records is 19961.

About the winery

Bear Creek Vineyard Company was a family winery founded in 1989, with Greg and Pam Stokes as proprietors, according to its page on Web Winery in December 1998. It sat at 2,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains, looking over Monterey Bay, and made fewer than 1,000 cases a year, by hand with family and friends, of Semillon, Chardonnay, Petite Sirah, Zinfandel and Carignan, preferring grapes from older vineyards. Visitors could come only on Passport days2.

From the archives

Pages Bear Creek Vineyard Company published on the original Web Winery, from December 1998; it had left the shop by October 2004.

  1. Bear Creek Vineyard Company: a family winery at 2,000 feet. Bear Creek's page, on Web Winery by December 1998, described a family-owned winery founded in 1989, with Greg and Pam Stokes as proprietors, making under 1,000 cases a year by hand of Semillon, Chardonnay, Petite Sirah, Zinfandel and Carignan from older vineyards. Visits were on Passport days only. Wayback copy

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