D & L Carinalli Vineyards officially began in 1996 with a dream to grow grapes for wine and eventually have our own labels. Below is the timeline of how our dream is coming true!

D & L Carinalli Vineyards

Timeline

Planted our first grape vines, 2 acres of Chardonnay

Planted 18 acres of Chardonnay

Planted 3 acres of Chardonnay

Planted ___ acres of Pinot Noir

First harvest of Chardonnay, very small and without netting, the birds ate most of them

Planted 12 Acres of Pinot Noir.

Second harvest of Chardonnay.

Harvested Chardonnay.

Continued to grow and care for all grapes. 

D & L Carinalli Vineyards is established.
Created our first label and bottled our 2003 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines, Sonoma Coast.

Planted another 12 acres of Pinot Noir

Wine sales begin to grow for the D & L Carinalli Vineyard wines

Second label, Bottled 2004 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast

Planted 13 acres of Pinot Noir

Planted 2 acres of Chardonnay

Became Russian River Valley appellation

Third label, Bottled 2005 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley

Planted 12 acres of Chardonnay

Planted 9 acres of Pinot Grigio, bringing our total acreage up to approximately 100 acres

Fourth label, Bottled our 2006 Chardonnay and 2006 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Fifth label, Bottled our 2007 Chardonnay and 2007 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Decided to make Vin Rose wine

Bottled our 2008 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our first 2008 Vin Rose, “Diane’s Delight”, California appellation

Harvested our first Pinot Grigio, Russian River Valley Estate grapes

Bottled our 2008 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our 2009 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our 2009 Vin Rose, “Diane’s Delight”, California appellation, January

Bottled our 2009 Pinot Grigio, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our 2010 Vin Rose, “Diane’s            Delight”, California appellation, December

2009 Vin Rose wins Gold medal, Best of Class and Best of Show Rose at the Los Angeles International Wine                              Competition

2009 Chardonnay wins Best of Class at Sonoma County Harvest Fair

Bottled our 2009 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our 2010 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

Bottled our 2011 Vin Rose, “Diane’s Delight”, California appellation, January

Bottled our 2010 Pinot Grigio, Russian River Valley Estate Wine

We continue to yearly bottle our Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio Russian River Valley Estate wines

In 2018 we bottled our first Rose of Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley Estate wine

Our wines have won many awards over the years, please see our awards page for details.