Claudia Springs Winery

About the winery

Claudia Springs Winery was a small family winery in the Anderson Valley of Mendocino County, founded in 1989⁵. Its 1997 page on Web Winery told how two couples, Claudia and Robert Klindt and Claudia and Warren Hein, friends for 20 years, first visited the valley in the spring of 1989. By that fall the Klindts had sold their San Jose home and bought the property at Philo where their house, the winery and 20 acres stood, and the Heins, equal partners in the winery, bought the 20 acres next door⁵.

Robert Klindt, known as Bob, made the wine, after 20 years as a home winemaker and classes at UC Davis, and believed in blending wine from different vineyards and grapes⁵. In 1997 the winery made about 2,200 cases a year of Zinfandel, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, with Syrah to follow, and family and friends handled the wine from crush to bottle⁵. The Klindts planted the Klindt Vineyard at Philo in 1998⁴, and Prince of Pinot reviewed Claudia Springs Pinot Noirs from it between 2007 and 2013¹. The same page describes a small tasting room on Highway 128 in Philo, next to the Floodgate Store, and says Bob Klindt also made the wines of Harmonique¹.