ARTICLES
Wine Enthusiast
San Francisco Chronicle
California’s Greenest AVA? Mendocino, American Wine Region of the Year, Stacy Briscoe, Oct. 24, 2024
In very few places can you find both the level of quality coupled with accessibility that you’ll discover here. In even fewer can you sip wine against the backdrop of a redwood forest whilst simultaneously breathing in fresh ocean air. Add in the level of commitment to preserving this singular place for future generations and there is no place quite like Mendocino the wine region reputed as California’s greenest AVA…(read one)
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)