Castle Rock Winery


Castle Rock Winery is an American winery in the Geyserville, California.

Background

Founded in 1994, the company started out as a virtual négociant winery buying wines on the bulk market to bottle at leased facilities. The majority of the wine is sourced from long-term contracts that draw on fruit from California, Oregon and Washington. Castle Rock Winery sells many different appellation-specific wines including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir. The wines are widely distributed across the United States.
Greg Popovich is the founder and President, and Chris Noble is his partner. The winery is run from a small suite of offices in the Palos Verdes Peninsula of California. The wines are produced from grapes grown in Oregon, Washington,and Calif. All the wines are produced and bottled at the Francis Ford Coppola facility in Sonoma County.
The winemaker is currently Eric Laumannwho oversees the over 360,000 annual case production, making Castle Rock Winery one of the 50 largest wine companies out of more than 10,000 wineries in the United States.
Castle Rock Winery was named as the best budget brand by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005 and among the Value Brands of the Year by Wine & Spirits magazine in 2016.
Greg Popovich is a graduate of Pepperdine University
Chris Noble is a graduate of Cambridge University.