Wine Tours California Napa Sonoma internet tours logo
Google

Home<Wine Tours<Sonoma County<Glen Ellen

Site Map

Wine Tours bar

Glen Ellen, Sonoma County Wine Tours

Wineries &

Sonoma Valley Mountain

Sonoma Valley Mtn Vineyards
spacer

Sonoma Valley Mountain 2

Sonoma Mtn Vineyards 2
spacer

Benziger Vineyard panorama

Benziger Vineyards
spacer

Chateau St. Jean garden panorama

Chateau St. Jean Winery
spacer

St. Francis Winery
spacer

Ledson Winery & Vineyard
spacer

Central Sonoma Valley
from Kunde Vineyards


spacer

Dining tunnel and wine barrel aging at Kunde Estate Winery and Vineyards
spacer

Read about wine caves
spacer

Click images to enlarge

Grapes change color on 100 year old vine

Century vines and grapes
at Kunde Estate Winery


spacer

Vinyard over storage caves at Kunde picture

Kunde Vineyard & Caves
spacer

picture of Chateau St. Jean gate

Chateau St. Jean entrance


spacer
Sonoma County Winery Map
Westside Road Wine Trail

Sonoma Valley Map
Map of Sonoma Valley

Glen Ellen is an unincorporated area in the northern half of the Sonoma Valley, also known as the Valley of the Moon.
spacer
Scroll down for a map of Sonoma County. Use the blue column links, right side, to visit other areas in the wine country or to tour San Francisco.

Glen Ellen area Wineries
spacer
There are many picturesque wineries in the Glen Ellen and Kenwood areas of the Sonoma Valley.
spacer
Follow the links in in the left hand column for pictures and panoramas of several wineries; Benziger Family Winery where the Glen Ellen Brand was introduced in 1982 - and sold in 1993 so that the family run winery could focus on premium wine, Chateau St. Jean Winery - first vintage 1974, St. Francis Winery - growing wine grapes since 1971, making wine since 1979, Ledson Winery & Vineyard whose Sonoma Valley landmark winery is known as "Ledson Castle" and Kunde Estate Winery & Vineyards where the Kunde family has been growing grapes and making wine since 1904.
spacer
Visit Glen Ellen on a 7 day California Wine Country Tour which begins and ends in San Francisco. You'll stay at the Westin St. Francis and tour the City-by-the-Bay before heading north to spend some time in Muir Woods National Monument walking among the redwoods then continuing on to Napa for lunch aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train. Free time in historic Sonoma Plaza rounds out your first day in wine country as you retire to Santa Rosa and the FountainGrove Inn.
spacer
Wine tours and tastings, champagne tour and tasting and a visit to Bodega Bay on the California coast are some of the highlights of this trip.

A Brief History of Glen Ellen
spacer
The Glen Ellen area was almost certainly a popular location for Native Americans with plenty of evidence of numerous villages.
spacer
Written history of Glen Ellen begins with a grant deed—part of the Agua Caliente Rancho—acquired from Lazaro Pina by General Mariano Vallejo in 1829. General Vallejo gave 2 1/2 leagues (approximately 8 square miles) to his children's pianoforte (similar to a piano) music teacher in 1846.
spacer
In 1858, Colonel Charles V. Stuart, purchased the land and named his ranch Glen Ellen in honor of his wife, Ellen. The village that grew near the ranch also came to be called Glen Ellen, so to avoid confusion the name of the ranch was changed to Glen Oaks. The Glen Oaks Ranch, located on Highway 12 just east of Glen Ellen, is now on the National Register of Historical Landmarks.
spacer
Joshua Chauvet established the first grain mill, the first lumberyard, brickyard and hotel in Glen Ellen in the 1800s. Hotel Chauvet is still in existence. Chauvet planted grapes and began producing wine and brandy in 1875. Today the original grain mill houses the Glen Ellen Winery and History Center.
spacer
Some vines at Kunde Estate Winery and Vineyards are over 100 years old. Learn more about the history of wine caves, like the wine storage and dinning cave at Kunde, in my illustrated article on Touring Wine Caves and Champagne Cellars.
spacer
Glen Ellen's first post office was established in July 1871. Once railroad service was available to Sonoma County in the 1880's, San Franciscans began spending their summers in Glen Ellen to escape the cold and fog in The City.
spacer
Jack London lived, farmed and wrote in Glen Ellen from 1905 until his death in 1916. He and his second wife built a dream home which London called Wolf House, only to have it burn down the day before they planned to move in. Jack London State Historic Park was created in 1959 with about 40 acres of London's 1,400-acre Beauty Ranch.
spacer
One of Jack London's books "Valley of the Moon" is named for the section of the Sonoma Valley around Glen Ellen with the same name. Father Jose Altimira called the area around San Francisco de Solano—the mission he founded in what is now Sonoma—"The Valley of the Moon", after the Native American observation that the moon in winter made seven successive appearances between distant mountains.
spacer
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher wrote twenty-six books about food, travel and family. M. F. K. Fisher — as she was known — died at her home in Glen Ellen in 1992.
spacer
Today many permanent residents of Glen Ellen are 3rd and 4th generation descendents of the original settlers. Many are winery owners or otherwise involved in the wine industry.
spacer
Take our small group Wine Country Tour, Redwoods and Wine Tour or Wine Country Jeep Tour.


spacer

Wine Tours

Wine Aficionado
Napa Valley Tour

spacer

Winery and Wine Tasting Tour
spacer

Redwoods & Winery Tour
spacer



California
Wine Country
Jeep Tours
w/new tour:
Wine & Games


spacer

Wine Country pictures gallery
View and purchase
archive quality prints


spacer

return to top
Complete site copyright © 2001–2008 Lee W. Nelson
iNeTours.com
Home | About | What's New | Privacy Policy | Contact | FAQs

Wine Tours
Food and Wine | Wine glasses | Wine Gifts | Wine racks/wine storage | Wine caves | Map to Wine Country | Carneros
Napa Valley | Silverado Trail | Napa | Yountville | Oakville/Rutherford | St. Helena | Calistoga | Napa Valley Hotel
Wine Trails | Sonoma County | Sonoma | Glen Ellen|Healdsburg | Alexander Valley/Dry Creek Valley | Hotel in Sonoma

Las Vegas Tour and Travel Guide
Las Vegas Strip Casino Resort Hotels | Apartments/Roommates | Restaurants | Las Vegas Tours

New York City Tour and Vacation Guide
New York City Apartments | New York City Hotels | Manhattan Map | New York City Tours

Tour San Francisco
SF Tours | Apartment Rentals | Vacation Rentals | San Francisco Hotels | San Francisco Map

Los Angeles Tour and Vacation Guide
  LA & Hollywood Tours | LA Apartment Rentals | Anaheim/Disney Resorts | Santa Monica

CA Central Coast
  Monterey | Carmel-by-the-Sea | Pacific Grove | Big Sur | Central Coast Map

Tour San Diego
San Diego Map | San Diego Apartments | San Diego Vacation Rentals | San Diego Tours

Tour New Orleans
New Orleans Hotels | Apartment Rentals | New Orleans Tours | Steamboat Tour

Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Map | Yosemite National Park Lodging

Pictures and Custom Prints
San Francisco | Wine Country | New York City | National Parks
Flowers, Roses | California Landscape | Sunset Pictures

Discount Travel
  PC Remote Viewing | Remote access software | Student software | Travel Shoes

Sightseeing Tours