The Testa family has farmed this Mendocino County land since 1912 and now works it across five generations, pouring wine at a Redwood Valley shop and Calpella's Home Ranch. Wines ship to more than 40 states, with vacation-rental farmhouses on-site.
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The Testa family, of Italian origin, has farmed the same land in Mendocino County since 1912, and the operation is now old enough to have four and five generations actively involved, with a sixth generation described as currently learning the business. That multigenerational span shows up in the property's structure: a working vineyard and Home Ranch in Calpella, a separate Coffee & Wine Shop in Redwood Valley open seven days a week, and an antiques store that runs alongside the wine operation rather than as an unrelated side venture. Wines ship to more than 40 states through the company's own online store, and a wine club offers members a 25% discount on wine, shipping and merchandise, a fairly standard structure but one the business runs directly rather than through a third-party club platform. Home Ranch also hosts private tastings and events, and the property offers vacation-rental farmhouses along with Harvest Hosts stays, extending the business into agritourism alongside wine sales. The site describes the wines generally as award-winning and hand-crafted without naming specific medals, vintages or varietals, so that claim stands as the company's own characterization rather than something independently documented on the page itself.
America's first organic and Biodynamic winery, Frey has farmed without added sulfites in Redwood Valley since 1980. It sells its organic reds, whites and bundles through an online shop and a daily tasting room at 11700 West Road.
This coastal candy kitchen in Mendocino County hand-makes truffles, chocolates, fudge and confections in small batches. Its shops in Mendocino and Fort Bragg and its online store sell gift boxes, assortments and seasonal collections shipped with care.
For 45 years this shop at the ocean end of Mendocino's Main Street has made small-batch jams, jellies, marmalades, chutneys and dessert sauces from whole ripe fruit. Its carriage-house store and online shop carry the full range plus other boutique local goods.
A family winery in Anderson Valley's coastal Mendocino since 1974, Navarro grows grapes, makes wine and presses non-alcoholic grape juices. Most of its production is sold directly through its Philo tasting room and by phone and web order, with case specials and shipping.
Perched on the bluffs of Highway 1 north of Fort Bragg since 1988, Pacific Star is a winery on the Mendocino coast. Visitors taste five wines with ocean views, and bottles can be bought online and shipped.
Joan and Paul Katzeff founded this Fort Bragg roastery in 1972 on Bird Friendly, organic and fair-trade coffee, now a B Corp and Roast Magazine's Roaster of the Year. Its Cause Coffees program has raised over $650,000 for partner causes.
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Joan and Paul Katzeff founded Thanksgiving Coffee Company in Fort Bragg in 1972, and the business has since built its identity around certification rather than roast style alone: Bird Friendly, organic and fair-trade coffees sit across the catalog, backed by B Corp status and a run of outside recognition that includes a Roast Magazine Roaster of the Year title, a Good Food Award, a Global Citizenship Award, and B Lab's Best For The World Community designation. The company sources through family-farm cooperatives rather than individual estate contracts, a structural choice that lines up with its Cause Coffees program, which the company states has raised more than $650,000 for partner organizations to date. That program runs alongside more conventional subscription offerings, including Roastmaster's Select, Single Origin and Dark Roast coffee clubs, and named coffees such as a Kenya Nyeri Peaberry, a Grey Whale Blend, a Guatemala Dark Roast and a Northern Italian Style Espresso, priced between $20 and $26. More than fifty years after its founding, the company still frames its coffee explicitly around social mission rather than treating certification as a marketing add-on to an otherwise conventional roasting business.
Open in Mendocino since 1978, The Highlight Gallery at 10480 Kasten Street shows and sells fine handcrafted furniture, art, ceramics, glass, jewelry and turned wood by American makers. Many one-of-a-kind pieces are sold in the ocean-view gallery and through its online shop, with custom work available.
Housed in the Watertower on Albion Street in Mendocino, The Studio makes and sells hand-thrown ceramics and naturally dyed textiles. It sells what it makes and teaches what it makes, offering private ocean-view classes alongside the shop.
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