About the winery
Pelican Ranch Winery is a small family winery owned by Phil and Peggy Crews3, founded in 19972. Phil Crews, a research professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, heads the winemaking. The winery makes Burgundian and Rhône-style wines, about twenty each vintage, from vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains and beyond, with each vineyard bottling limited to 200 cases2.
The winery started out in a shared facility in Scotts Valley. On March 28, 2003 it opened its own "city winery" in the Swift Street Courtyard in Santa Cruz, two blocks off Highway 1, its page on Web Winery said that year6, and the opening-day photos showed the Crews family and friends at the ribbon cutting7. When the Santa Cruz lease ended the winery moved to Kennedy Drive in Capitola, with a grand reopening in March 20114. It is now back in Scotts Valley, at 2364 Bean Creek Road1,3, the address of the old Roudon-Smith winery, which became Skov Winery in 20115.
Known for
- Burgundian and Rhône-style wines
- Single-vineyard wines
- Pinot Noir
Nearby in Santa Cruz Mountains
- Glenwood Oaks Winery Scotts ValleyNot confirmed
- Aptos Vineyard AptosOpen
- Bargetto Winery SoquelOpen
- Burrell School Vineyards & Winery Los GatosOpen
