Web Winery
Since 1995

Roudon-Smith Winery

Saratoga, Santa Cruz Mountains. Founded 1972 near Scotts Valley; tasting room now in downtown Saratoga.

OpenChecked Nov 15, 2026, source1

Visit roudonsmith.com

About the winery

Roudon-Smith Winery was started in 1972 by two couples, Bob and Annamaria Roudon and Jim and June Smith2. Bob Roudon and Jim Smith were engineers at Amdahl; Bob made the wine, Jim ran the winery, June handled publicity and marketing, and Annamaria the graphics and books5. In the spring of 1972 they bought vineyard land high in the Santa Cruz Mountains and made their first wine in a small basement winery, and in 1978 they finished a larger winery near Scotts Valley2, on Bean Creek Road7.

In 1996 the winery released Clos du Web, a red sold only online, with a label designed by Jan and Ken Aull of Aull-N-Aull's Web Winery7. The partners kept the winery small enough to run by hand themselves, as their own page put it in 19984. By the early 2000s they were semi-retired and making about 2,000 cases a year, and in 2003 they sold the winery2.

Al Drewke bought half of Roudon-Smith in 2006 and took full ownership in 2011, moving the winery out of Scotts Valley2. That year his partner Annette Hunt sold him her half and opened her own Skov Winery at the old Bean Creek Road site3. Mikael Wargin has made the wines since 2012, now at a shared winery in San Carlos, and the tasting room is in downtown Saratoga2.

Known for

  • Pinot Noir
  • Chardonnay
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Syrah
  • Merlot
  • Zinfandel

In the press

From the archives

Pages Roudon-Smith Winery published on the original Web Winery, from December 1998. Visiting details in them are long out of date.

Roudon-Smith logo: 'Roudon Smith' in tall dark red letters with a soft grey shadow.
Roudon-Smith's logo on Web Winery, 1999.
  1. Roudon-Smith winery home page and history. The winery's own home page told the founding story of Roudon-Smith: two engineering couples, a first crush in a basement, a larger winery near Scotts Valley in 1978, and a later cut to 2,000 cases in semi-retirement. It also listed a monthly wine special.
  2. Connection Magazine visit and Clos du Web. A magazine feature from autumn 1996 described a visit to the Roudon-Smith tasting room on Bean Creek Road, a wine dinner at Oswald restaurant in Santa Cruz, the owners' community roles, and the launch of the internet-only Clos du Web red.
  3. Sentinel report: Roudon-Smith winery put up for sale. An April 2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel article reported that Bob Roudon and Jim and June Smith had put their Scotts Valley winery on the market to retire fully. It described the property, the valuable early use permit, and the owners' plans.
Roudon-Smith Winery, 1998-2005: from the Web Winery archive

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