Early history In 1974,
Jess Jackson purchased an orchard in Northern California. He planted grapes on the land to attempt winemaking. Jackson Family Wines was founded in 1982, and its first vintage of
Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay (1982) was released in 1983. In 1986, Jackson Family Wines purchased part of Tepusquet Vineyard in the
Santa Maria Valley and established Cambria Winery. It established Stonestreet Winery in 1989 in the
Alexander Valley. The company expanded into
Sonoma and
Mendocino counties in 1989, and the central and southern California coast in 1991. In 1993, it acquired La Crema winery in
Windsor, California. In 1994, Jackson Family Wines acquired Tenuta di Arceno in
Tuscany. It purchased Alexander Mountain Estate in 1995. In 1996, the company purchased Liparita Vineyard, which was renamed W.S. Keyes Vineyard. Jackson Family Wines established Carmel Road Winery in
Monterey, California in 1997 and Vérité in Sonoma in 1998. The following year, it purchased the El Maitén estate in
Chile.
Expansion Jackson Family Wines expanded to Australia in 2000 with the acquisition of Eringa Park vineyard, which was renamed Yangarra Estate Vineyard. That same year, the company acquired
Matanzas Creek Winery in Sonoma Valley. It continued an international expansion with the purchase of Château Lassègue in
Bordeaux, France in 2003. La Jota Vineyard Co. on
Howell Mountain was acquired by Jackson Family Wines in 2005. In 2006, the company acquired Byron Winery, Freemark Abbey, Arrowood and Murphy-Goode Estate Winery in Alexander Valley. The company planted
Périgord truffle spores in its hazelnut and white oak orchard in 2011. Its first truffle harvest in 2017 produced 17 fungi. It acquired Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard in South Australia in February 2012. The following June, Jackson Family Wines acquired Ramal West Vineyard in the Sonoma Coast. In November 2012, Jackson Family Wines acquired the property that contained Richard's Grove and Saralee's Vineyard. In 2013, the Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building opened at the
University of California, Davis after the Jackson family donated $3 million for the construction of a testing ground for
environmentally friendly technologies. That same year, Jackson Family Wines established Capensis, a winery in South Africa. Capensis Chardonnay is produced using grapes from across the Western Cape, including the Fijnbosch vineyard. Yverdon vineyard on Napa's
Spring Mountain was purchased by the company in 2013. Jackson Family Wines also acquired Zena Crown Vineyard in
Yamhill, Oregon in 2013, and established the Gran Moraine Winery in Yamhill in 2014. It acquired Siduri and Novy Family Wines in 2015. Siduri was founded in 1994 by Adam and Dianna Novy Lee. It was the first acquisition by Jackson Family Wines that did not include vineyards. In 2016, Jackson Family Wines acquired Penner-Ash Wine Cellars and WillaKenzie Estate in Oregon, Copain Wines in
Healdsburg, California, and Field Stone Winery in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley. It was announced that the company was building a new winery in Oregon in March 2017. In April 2017,
the Culinary Institute of America at Copia announced it had renamed its amphitheater Jackson Family Wines Amphitheater in honor of a $2 million gift from the family to the culinary college. At the Sonoma County Farm Bureau's Love of the Land event in July 2017, Jackson Family Wines was recognized with the
Luther Burbank Conservation Award for its practices and commitment to sustainability. In May 2017, it was announced that the company was acquiring Brewer-Clifton, a Pinot Noir-based winery, including its brand Diatom as well as of vineyards and a winery and tasting room in
Lompoc, California. Brewer-Clifton was founded by Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton in 1995. Banke received
Wine Spectators Distinguished Service Award in 2017 for her work with Jackson Family Winery. Jackson Family Wines sponsored the Homes for Sonoma project in 2018 after the
October 2017 Northern California wildfires. == Regenerative farming ==