Hartford Family Winery was founded in 1994 as a result of Don and Jennifer Hartford’s appreciation for the wines, the people, and the unique vineyards near their Russian River Valley home. Making delicious wines of high personality is directly related to the difficult locations of the vineyard sources, the limited production of their wines and the varietals used. “Character through adversity” is an expression that they believe applies to people and grapevines and surviving adversity builds character, and personality, in both. Hartford Family Winery specialises in making wines from single vineyard sites. In recent vintages they have made about 25 different single vineyard wines. Small and low-yielding vineyards deliver expressive and personality-rich wine. Their single vineyard Hartford Court Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays total as few as 93 cases, up to about 800 cases. Likewise, the Hartford Old Vine Zinfandels are produced in small quantities. All these wines are highly allocated.