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Crescini Wines

Soquel, Santa Cruz Mountains. 1980 to 2000.

No longer tradingChecked Nov 15, 2026, source1,2

No longer trading

Crescini Wines closed at the end of 2000, after almost 20 years in business1,2. With no one in the family to carry it on, Paulé and Richard Crescini decided not to continue, a Santa Cruz Sentinel column reported in February 20011. There is nowhere to visit and no wine to order.

About the winery

Crescini Wines was a small family winery in the Soquel Valley, among redwoods north of Soquel, run by Richard and Paulé Crescini3. Their 1998 page on Web Winery traced the habit of wine with every meal back to the family's roots in Piedmont, in northern Italy. The couple began making wine for themselves in 1975, and when friends kept asking why it wasn't for sale, they bonded the winery in 19803.

It stayed small: 750 to 850 cases a year, mostly red wines, sold at the winery's tasting room, through its website and by referral3. Visitors found picnic tables, horseshoe pits and a bocce court3. Richard made the wine, and Paulé kept the books, handled the federal and state paperwork, helped with bottling and looked after about 80 wholesale accounts while working part-time, the Sentinel column said in 20011. The winery lost 40 percent of its wine in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and soon afterward Paulé went to work full-time as director of radiology at the Santa Cruz Medical Clinic1.

Known for

  • Red wines
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

From the archives

Pages Crescini Wines published on the original Web Winery, from December 1998.

  1. The Crescinis' story, from Piedmont to the Soquel Valley. Rich and Paulé Crescini's page, on Web Winery by December 1998, traced their winemaking to family meals and roots in Piedmont, a home hobby from 1975 and a bonded winery from 1980. It described a winery making 750 to 850 cases a year, mostly red wines, with picnic grounds, horseshoe pits and a bocce court among the redwoods. Wayback copy

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