Founded in 2001 by David Cobb and his son Ross. The Coastlands Vineyard, planted in 1989 on a Sonoma Coast ridge above Occidental, supplied Williams Selyem from 1992; Ross now farms it himself. The family makes single-vineyard Pinot Noir from three estate sites and partners, Chardonnay, and a little Riesling.
Cobb Wines is the work of two generations of the Cobb family on the far Sonoma Coast. David Cobb — a marine ecologist — and his wife Diane spent the mid-1980s searching from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Oregon border for a property where Pinot Noir could thrive close to redwoods and the Pacific. They settled on a ridge above Occidental and hand-planted Coastlands Vineyard in 1989, four acres of Pinot Noir on marine sedimentary soils at 1,150 feet elevation, three miles from the ocean. Williams Selyem bought the fruit beginning in 1992 and produced a single-vineyard bottling in 1994. Son Ross — who studied agroecology at UC Santa Cruz and went on to winemaking roles at Ferrari-Carano, Williams Selyem, Flowers, and Hirsch — founded Cobb Wines with his parents in 2001, harvesting 130 cases that first vintage.
Coastlands Vineyard Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — The estate flagship, from vines planted 1989–1998 in marine soils at 1,150 feet.
Diane Cobb: Coastlands Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — The top cuvée from the original block; the wine that started Cobb in 2001.
Rice-Spivak Vineyard Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — A consistently aromatic, structured bottling over a vein of volcanic ash.
Sonoma Coast Chardonnay — A native-fermented, minimal-intervention white drawn from five coastal vineyards.
Riesling, Sonoma Coast — A small-lot dry Riesling from this far-coast Pinot specialist.
Today Ross lives on the Coastlands property with his wife Cindy and daughter Kennedy, farming the estate himself. The portfolio centers on three estate vineyards — Coastlands, Joy Road, and Emmaline Ann — joined by Rice-Spivak (Sebastopol Hills), Doc's Ranch (adjacent to Coastlands), and small bottlings from Wendling (Anderson Valley) and others. The Diane Cobb: Coastlands Vineyard Pinot Noir, from the 1989 nursery block renamed in memory of Diane after her death in 2006, is the apex of the program. Winemaking is low-intervention: native yeasts, whole-cluster fermentation, unfined and unfiltered. Wines are allocated through a mailing list with limited retail availability; there is no public tasting room.
Ross Cobb grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the son of marine ecologist and home winemaker David Cobb, who in 1989 planted the now-benchmark Coastlands Vineyard on the far western Sonoma Coast. Ross studied agroecology and sustainable agriculture at UC Santa Cruz, then built his craft at Ferrari-Carano, Bonny Doon, and Williams Selyem — where he worked under Bob Cabral — before serving as associate and then head winemaker at Flowers and six years as head winemaker at Hirsch. In 2001 he and his parents founded Cobb Wines, bottling roughly 130 cases of Coastlands Pinot Noir. A dedicated Pinot Noir specialist, Cobb crafts crystalline, cool-climate single-vineyard wines from estate sites in the Freestone-Occidental area, where ocean fog and wind hold yields low and complexity high.
A marine biologist and environmental scientist, David Cobb was among the first to plant Pinot Noir on the far Sonoma Coast. With his wife, Diane, he studied soils and climate charts for years before settling on a ridgetop above Occidental, planting the Coastlands Vineyard by hand in 1988–89 — its early fruit so prized that Williams Selyem bottled it as a single-vineyard wine. In 2001 he co-founded Cobb Wines with his son Ross as winemaker, pairing his pioneering vineyard with Ross’s craft. The two generations continue to farm Coastlands and other cool-climate sites together.
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Coastlands Vineyard Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — The estate flagship, from vines planted 1989–1998 in marine soils at 1,150 feet.
Diane Cobb: Coastlands Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — The top cuvée from the original block; the wine that started Cobb in 2001.
Rice-Spivak Vineyard Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast — A consistently aromatic, structured bottling over a vein of volcanic ash.
Sonoma Coast Chardonnay — A native-fermented, minimal-intervention white drawn from five coastal vineyards.
Riesling, Sonoma Coast — A small-lot dry Riesling from this far-coast Pinot specialist.
Cobb Wines is the work of two generations of the Cobb family on the far Sonoma Coast. David Cobb — a marine ecologist — and his wife Diane spent the mid-1980s searching from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Oregon border for a property where Pinot Noir could thrive close to redwoods and the Pacific. They settled on a ridge above Occidental and hand-planted Coastlands Vineyard in 1989, four acres of Pinot Noir on marine sedimentary soils at 1,150 feet elevation, three miles from the ocean. Williams Selyem bought the fruit beginning in 1992 and produced a single-vineyard bottling in 1994. Son Ross — who studied agroecology at UC Santa Cruz and went on to winemaking roles at Ferrari-Carano, Williams Selyem, Flowers, and Hirsch — founded Cobb Wines with his parents in 2001, harvesting 130 cases that first vintage.
Today Ross lives on the Coastlands property with his wife Cindy and daughter Kennedy, farming the estate himself. The portfolio centers on three estate vineyards — Coastlands, Joy Road, and Emmaline Ann — joined by Rice-Spivak (Sebastopol Hills), Doc's Ranch (adjacent to Coastlands), and small bottlings from Wendling (Anderson Valley) and others. The Diane Cobb: Coastlands Vineyard Pinot Noir, from the 1989 nursery block renamed in memory of Diane after her death in 2006, is the apex of the program. Winemaking is low-intervention: native yeasts, whole-cluster fermentation, unfined and unfiltered. Wines are allocated through a mailing list with limited retail availability; there is no public tasting room.
Ross Cobb grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the son of marine ecologist and home winemaker David Cobb, who in 1989 planted the now-benchmark Coastlands Vineyard on the far western Sonoma Coast. Ross studied agroecology and sustainable agriculture at UC Santa Cruz, then built his craft at Ferrari-Carano, Bonny Doon, and Williams Selyem — where he worked under Bob Cabral — before serving as associate and then head winemaker at Flowers and six years as head winemaker at Hirsch. In 2001 he and his parents founded Cobb Wines, bottling roughly 130 cases of Coastlands Pinot Noir. A dedicated Pinot Noir specialist, Cobb crafts crystalline, cool-climate single-vineyard wines from estate sites in the Freestone-Occidental area, where ocean fog and wind hold yields low and complexity high.
A marine biologist and environmental scientist, David Cobb was among the first to plant Pinot Noir on the far Sonoma Coast. With his wife, Diane, he studied soils and climate charts for years before settling on a ridgetop above Occidental, planting the Coastlands Vineyard by hand in 1988–89 — its early fruit so prized that Williams Selyem bottled it as a single-vineyard wine. In 2001 he co-founded Cobb Wines with his son Ross as winemaker, pairing his pioneering vineyard with Ross’s craft. The two generations continue to farm Coastlands and other cool-climate sites together.
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