Breggo means “sheep” in Boontling, in honor of our 203-acre farm just north of Boonville that once served as headquarters to one of the oldest sheep ranches in Anderson Valley. For more than a century, sheep dominated the agricultural landscape here. Sheep, like the domesticated vinifera grapevine, occupy and even thrive on the geographic periphery — places too steep, with soils too thin and a climate too cold for other types of intensive agriculture. Sheep and vines flourish where the domesticated meets the wilderness. The margins. This is our place.
Breggo crafts wines from the most renowned vineyards in Anderson Valley: Savoy, Ferrington, and Donnelly Creek Vineyards. We treat that fruit as gently as humanly and mechanically possible, producing small lots of wine that display the complexity, power, finesse, and balance possible with fruit grown in Anderson Valley’s cold coastal climate. Breggo’s wines serve as an expression of this amazing terroir, of our growers, of earth and us.
