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Since 1995

Soquel Vineyards

Soquel, Santa Cruz Mountains. Founded 1987 by three partners, who still run it.

OpenChecked Nov 15, 2026, source1

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About the winery

Soquel Vineyards is a small winery on Glen Haven Road in the hills above Soquel. Peter and Paul Bargetto and Jon Morgan founded it in 1987, and the three still manage it day to day2.

The partners started out in a small winery on Glen Haven Road. Their early Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay soon found a local following2. In 1998 they bought a five-acre property a few hundred yards up the road and began building the present winery there in 2001; its cellar doors were made from an old redwood tank salvaged from the original Bargetto winery, and three acres of the property are an estate vineyard planted only to Pinot Noir2. The tasting room's patio looks out over the Soquel hills to Monterey Bay1.

In the late 1990s the partners made about 2,000 cases a vintage, of Santa Cruz Mountains wines and wines from the Stags Leap District in Napa Valley, and most of their Santa Cruz Mountains wines came from grapes grown at the Martin Ray estate in Saratoga3.

Known for

  • Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Chardonnay

From the archives

Pages Soquel Vineyards published on the original Web Winery, from December 1998; it had left the shop by May 2001. Visiting details in them are long out of date.

Soquel Vineyards title: the name in white spaced capitals on a black bar.
Soquel Vineyards' logo on Web Winery, 1999.
  1. About Soquel Vineyards. The winery's page described a partnership of Peter and Paul Bargetto and Jon Morgan, founded in 1987, making about 2,000 cases a vintage of Santa Cruz Mountains and Stags Leap District wines, most of the mountain wines from grapes grown at the Martin Ray estate in Saratoga. Wayback copy

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