Scribe Winery

Scribe Winery was founded in 2007 by brothers Andrew and Adam Mariani, fourth-generation California farmers from a family whose Mariani Nut Company has farmed walnuts and almonds in the Sacramento Valley since 1972. The Sonoma estate they restored sits on a property that pioneered pre-Prohibition winemaking in Sonoma Valley, and the brothers approached it with both reverence and irreverence. Vineyards are farmed organically and biodynamically. Winemaking is non-interventionist: native yeast fermentations, minimal additions, and a willingness to bottle varieties (Sylvaner, Mission, Pinot Meunier) that nobody else in California bothers with. Andrew and Adam's sister Kelly, who cooked at Chez Panisse, oversees the food program. In 2024, the family bought the neighboring Arrowhead Vineyard, formerly farmed by Gundlach Bundschu and then owned by UBS: the first major land expansion in Scribe's history.

The tasting experience centers on the Hacienda, a 19th-century hilltop home that the Marianis spent over a decade restoring (it briefly served, by local lore, as a brothel, and later as a quiet residence). A standard 90-minute experience pairs four current-release wines with garden snacks served family-style on open-air patios or, in cooler weather, in the Hacienda's stone-floored rooms. As of recent years, on-property reservations are exclusive to members of the Scribe Viticultural Society, the wine club whose roster the Marianis have intentionally kept small. The wines have become reference points for what "new California" means: low-intervention, terroir-driven, and stylistically distinct from anything Sonoma was making twenty years ago. Visit by membership or by waitlist invitation; call or text 707.939.1858 to inquire.