Harvest Moon Winery

Harvest Moon Wines were founded on a single principal - to grow up world class Russian River Valley Zinfandel in a balanced, elegant style. Our premise is that Zinfandel can be just as layered and complex as any Pinot Noir or Bordeaux variety in the world and receive the same respect. The Pitts family has grown quality grapes in the Russian River Valley since 1977. In 2000, son Randy reverse migrated from San Francisco back to Sonoma County to assume the farming responsibilities at the family's modest nine-acre ranch. In conjunction with lessons on farming by his Dad and a few viticulture/enology courses at the local junior college, Randy made a barrel of homemade Zinfandel off the back block which turned out exceptionally tasty. Quickly concluding that properly farmed and judiciously fermented, Zinfandel has great capabilities of being California's own wine nobility. The growers-turned winermakers birthed their inaugural vintage in 2002 and look forward to making their Zinprint on the winescene for decades to come.