Open Year Round
About Us:
Bella Grace, est. 2006, is beautifully sited in the Sierra Foothills, with tasting locations in the Shenandoah Valley and historic Sutter Creek. This family run operation achieved state-wide recognition for its wines within a few years after opening, winning two "Best of California" awards for Barbera and Grenache Blanc wines. Bella Grace continues to strive for excellence through sustainable wine growing and hand crafted winemaking. The vineyard property, in the Shenandoah Valley, grows twelve distinct wine grape varieties and three varieties of olive oil trees. Sustainability also extends to winemaking; a hillside wine cave stores and ages barreled red wines, and a new solar project is designed to provide 100% of the winery power requirements.
Visitors to the wine cave and vineyards enjoy a panoramic view of adjacent hillside vineyards and wineries, Mount Aukum and the Sierra Foothills, as well as a back drop of the snow capped high Sierra Nevada Mountains. The scenery makes Bella Grace a wonderful stop on the Steiner Road wine trail (nine distinctive wineries) for wine tasting and a picnic. Wine club members enjoy regular private events on the property.
The Bella Grace tasting room on Main Street in historic Sutter Creek is housed in an 1860's era home. This Victorian cottage, situated on a lovely property with manicured lawns and gardens, captures the feel of the region's gold rush time frame. Bella Grace restored the home, maintaining much of the period character, while adding features you would expect in a modern California wine tasting room. As you enter the house on the street level, there is a retail store focused on tasting and sales of organic olive oils, imported balsamics and fruit flavored vinegars. You can also find wine oriented tools, gifts and trinkets. The wine tasting bar and reserve tasting room are located down the stairs on the main level of the house. Here, you are awed by the floor to ceiling heritage Ponderosa pine wood plank walls and concrete bar. The next room was the original family kitchen, and floors has been turned into a beautiful and comfortable Reserve room. Visitors can taste limited edition and library wines while relaxing on soft leather chairs. On the same level, you can walk outside on to a wood deck and enjoy the peace in the shade of a sweeping Maple tree and towering California Gargantuan Sequoia tree. The Sequoia was bought at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and replanted here.
