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Mill Creek Vineyards & Winery

Address:

1401 Westside Rd, Healdsburg, CA 95448

Phone:

(707) 431-2121

Hours:
  • Mon: 10am-5pm
  • Tue: 10am-5pm
  • Wed: 10am-5pm
  • Thu: 10am-5pm
  • Fri: 10am-5pm
  • Sat: 10am-5pm
  • Sun: 10am-5pm

Other Details:
Both Bill and Yvonne came from backgrounds that emphasized respect for agriculture. Both had the idea of wise and conservative use of land, and deep respect for those who make their livings from it, ingrained from the time they were children. While their paths eventually, but temporarily, separated, they both returned to their roots in Sonoma County to marry, raise a family, and help run the family business. Their childhood experiences also provided them with strong senses of community, and a commitment to maintain the rural lifestyle. Bill s family history is the history of Mill Creek Vineyards itself. Charles and Vera Kreck brought their three children to Alexander Valley, almost by accident. Moving north to Oregon from Southern California in December, 1948, flooded roads forced a stopover in Healdsburg. Out of curiosity and with not much else to do, Charles looked at a couple of parcels of land, bought one in Alexander Valley, and the young family had a new direction. They moved once more, to the ranch on Mill Creek Road ; Vera Kreck continues to live there. From there, Charles continued adding to the family's real estate holdings, with Bill and James pitching in to help with taking care of livestock and crops. In 1969, a prune orchard along Westside Road became a cabernet sauvignon vineyard ; the grapes were some of the first planted in the Dry Creek Valley since before Prohibition, leading the way for the wine industry boom over the next two-and-a-half decades. Mill Creek Vineyards now stands where the old fruit trees once grew. Yvonne's family also migrated to Alexander Valley from Berkeley before she was born, and likewise never left. In fact, she and Bill raised their three sons in the house in which she grew up. Land that was once corrals and pasture for her horses are now filled with grapevines: it took many years, but Bill's dream of a small vineyard on the Chalk Hill Road property came true in 1991 ; amidst two-hundred-year-old valley oaks are seven acres now planted to the classic Bordeaux varietals cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot used in the Kreck Estate Meritage, Reflections. Mill Creek Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon blends grapes from this vineyard with those grown on the Dry Creek Valley Estate.

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