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Since 1995

Sunrise Winery

Cupertino, Santa Cruz Mountains. 1976 to 1998, at the old Picchetti winery from 1982.

No longer tradingChecked Nov 15, 2026, source1,4

No longer trading

Sunrise Winery closed in 1998, after 16 years at the old Picchetti winery on Monte Bello Road above Cupertino3,4. That year Leslie Pantling took a long-term lease of the vineyards and brought back the Picchetti name1. Picchetti Winery is a separate business; it makes wine on the site today2,5. There is nowhere to visit and no wine to order.

About the winery

Sunrise Winery was started in 1976 in Ben Lomond by five partners, among them Ron and Rolayne Stortz, according to a community history of Santa Cruz Mountains wineries4. In 1982 it moved to Monte Bello Road, into the stone winery the Picchetti brothers had built in 1896 on a ranch their family began farming in the 1870s2,4. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District had bought the land in 1976, when the winery was in great disrepair, and it thanks the Stortzes, its lessees, for helping the historic property back to life2.

Wine was made there as Sunrise Winery from 1982 to 19983. Rolayne was the winemaker and Ron ran the business, and over the years three of the five original partners sold their shares4.

From the archives

Sunrise Winery had pages on the original Web Winery from December 1998.

Nearby in Santa Cruz Mountains