Store Tasting Hours: Fri-Sun 11:00-5:00pm
Winery Tasting Hours: Sat-Sun 12:00-5:00pm
A bit of History
Corinne
The Bottle Washer in Chief
Corinne, the winemaker, hails from South Africa and came to the United States in 1983. She settled in the Bay Area and toiled in High Tech until 2000.
Since her youth, Corinne has been passionate about the outdoors and was an avid equestrienne in South Africa where she competed successfully in Show Jumping and Eventing disciplines.
That’s Corinne competing in a Equestrian event back in South Africa, a while back
After a career in High Tech, she began to pursue her passion of raising and training horses and starting a hobby vineyard.
When she happened on the Torre Ranch in Amador County she knew she had found the property of her dreams.
However her priorities flipped: the hobby vineyard turned into a commercial vineyard, and the two horses which she acquired and planned to breed in 2004, are living a life of luxury, while Corinne, the winemaker, concentrates on her wine business.
Corinne loves fine wines, and has always been intrigued by the wine making process. Thus, looking beyond High Tech, Corinne yearned to move to the country to start a horse ranch and a hobby vineyard.
But as you found out, priorities flipped.
Here’s Corinne participating at a Wine Tasting event at Preston Castle in Ione CA.
Wine Tree Farm is Animal Friendly
Our Animals at Work and Play
Animals at Wine Tree Farm are part of the crew and have their chores.
Our sheep are in charge of weed control, the dogs are the greeters and our winery cat …, well she’s the on-site cat.
Meet Epi (Epimeliades)- Anatolian/Great Pyrenees who protects our sheep,
Giovanni, the Resident cat
Timber our Australian Sheperd – door bell and greeter.
Three of our 11 Baby Doll Sheep, who are in charge of keeping the weeds down.
In Memoriam - our late winery dogs
