The Staglin Family Vineyard has a 130-year heritage of viticulture and a rich social history based on an extraordinary procession of owners through multiple generations. In 1864, John Steckter and Mary E. Harris Steckter purchased a 367- acre parcel for $34 an acre from Serranus Clinton Hastings, one of the wealthiest pioneers and capitalists of early California. They cleared the land and built a large wood frame residence and several barns on their new farm where they propagated 60 acres of grapes surrounding the home. After the death of John Steckter in 1904, Mary was forced to sell the property due to litigation at which time it passed through several different owners before the Staglin family purchased this historic estate on the Rutherford Bench in 1985. Today the property is home to the Staglins, fifty-one acres of vines, an underground winery, the historic homestead, a solar array and the diverse wildlife that inhabits this certified organic estate. 100% committed to solar power.