ARTICLES

San Francisco Chronicle

This vineyard was an insider’s secret. Can these winemakers finally make it famous? Esther Mobley, Feb. 20, 2024

The Halcon Vineyard has always been a wine nerd’s secret. For years, the Syrahs made from this windy, rocky site in remote Mendocino County were gossiped about in online message boards, where some enthusiasts maintained that Halcon was the finest Syrah vineyard in California…(read on)


Press Democrat

10 women making their mark on the Sonoma, Napa county wine industry Peg Melnik, March 18, 2024

Theodora Lee is the vintner of Theopolis Vineyards in Mendocino County’s Yorkville Highlands. Lee has also kept her day job of the senior partner and trial lawyer of Littler in San Francisco… (read on)


AFAR

How to see California where the Redwoods meet the vineyards. Annie Fitzsimmons, June 8, 2021

… Theodora R. Lee learned how to ride horses and drive a tractor at eight years old and still considers herself a farmer at heart who fell in love with vineyards. In 2001, she bought 20 acres of land in the Yorkville Highlands of the Anderson Valley almost two hours north of San Francisco, planted her vineyard in 2003, and bottled her first wines in 2014… (read on)