Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard

Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard is a vineyard which grows premium grapes for our private wine club. Wines are only available to wine club members.

Our Farm is also a rehabilitation center for perform horses, retirement horses, and foaling..

That little brass instrument in Joanne’s hand is a refractometer. It measures sugar levels in grape juice — what winemak...
06/04/2026

That little brass instrument in Joanne’s hand is a refractometer. It measures sugar levels in grape juice — what winemakers call Brix.

She crushes a single grape between her fingers, drops the juice on the glass, and the number tells us exactly where the fruit is in its ripening cycle.

Too low and the grape isn’t ready. Too high and we’ve waited too long. The sweet spot is usually a 48-hour window. Miss it and the wine never recovers.
Joanne walks the vineyard with that refractometer every few days in late summer. I trust her readings more than any lab report.

23 years married. 23 years of her telling me when to pick. She’s almost never wrong.
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06/02/2026

Sometimes the best part of running a place like this is the calls you don’t see coming.

A wine club member called a few weeks back and asked if we’d host his mother’s 90th birthday at Bella Cavalli.
Of course we said yes.

She walked in to a bagpiper playing in front of the show barn. Family around her. Ninety years of life and a sound that carries across a lot of it.

We’ve spent 23 years building this ranch into a working winery and a horse facility. We didn’t build it to be a celebration venue. People keep using it as one anyway.

Joanne and I are honored every time.
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05/31/2026

Bottling day at Bella Cavalli.

That’s our Albariño moving down the line. Grown on our 43 acres in Solvang. Picked at first light when the sugars are sitting exactly where I want them.

Fermented in stainless. Aged. Tasted barrel by barrel by Joanne until it earns the green light.Then it goes into bottles.

1,200 cases a year is everything we make. None of it goes to stores. None of it ends up in restaurants. Every bottle on this line is destined for a wine club member.
If you’ve been wondering what it looks like when a small ranch in Solvang turns its own grapes into its own wine, this is it.

No middleman. No distributor. Just a vineyard, a cellar, a bottling line, and the 250 people who’ve earned a seat at the table.

Here’s how to be one of them:
👉 Free to join. No signup fee, no annual dues.
👉 You pick your wines. 12 styles a year.
👉 Standard shipping every other month — adjust however you like.
👉 Cancel anytime, or pause. Just drop us a quick email.
👉 New members get a 6-varietal sample pack for $50 to start.
Every bottle on this line is going to a member. The next batch could include you.
🍷 https://join.bellacavallifarms.com/home-1718

We teach them young.Hayden’s at the wheel. Brixton’s riding shotgun. Cowboy hats on. Western shirts buttoned. Both of th...
05/30/2026

We teach them young.

Hayden’s at the wheel. Brixton’s riding shotgun. Cowboy hats on. Western shirts buttoned. Both of them staring out across the arena like there’s a job to do and they’re the ones who need to do it.

There isn’t, of course. Not really. Their in our John Deere and the most serious work happening today is making sure the Gator gets parked back under the lean-to before lunch.

But this is how it starts. With a hat that’s slightly too big. A steering wheel that bigger than them And the look on a kid’s face that says I’m doing it. I’m part of this.

Twenty-three years on Highway 246. Four generations of this family have now ridden, driven, or otherwise commanded a vehicle on this property. The youngest two are just earlier in the curve than the rest of us.
Tag the kid in your life who’s already practicing for the job they want when they grow up. 🚜

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Throwback to last Albariño harvest.Slide 1: The work. First light at Bella Cavalli. The crew moving down a row, loading ...
05/28/2026

Throwback to last Albariño harvest.
Slide 1: The work. First light at Bella Cavalli. The crew moving down a row, loading the morning's pick into the bin behind the tractor. This is the part most wine drinkers never see — bent backs, cool air, hands cold from gripping the clusters, somebody calling out from three rows over.
Slide 2: The result. One bin. A few hundred pounds of Albariño. Picked at first light when the fruit is still cool and the sugars are sitting right where I want them.
Albariño is one of the trickier whites we grow — Spanish in origin, thin-skinned, easy to lose if you wait one day too long to harvest. The window between not quite ready and too ripe is sometimes only 48 hours. Miss it and the wine tastes flat. Catch it and you get the bright, citrus-forward, mineral wine that's become one of our wine club favorites.
The wine is in those bins somewhere. We just have to coax it out.
Albariño fans — what's your favorite food pairing? 🍇

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This is what wine club really means.That's Joanne pulling a sample of our Grenache straight from the barrel. The long gl...
05/27/2026

This is what wine club really means.

That's Joanne pulling a sample of our Grenache straight from the barrel. The long glass tube in her hand is called a wine thief — it's how we taste wine while it's still aging in oak, before it's bottled, before it's labeled, before anyone outside the cellar gets to try it.

I'm the winemaker at Bella Cavalli. Joanne is my palate.

I make twelve handcrafted styles a year. Before any of them get the green light, Joanne tastes through them — barrel by barrel — giving honest feedback no consultant could match. 37 years married. 23 years of tasting my wine. She knows the style we're chasing better than anyone.

Here's what wine club members get that nobody else does: when you come to Bella Cavalli, the day is yours. A picnic on the lawn with friends. A walk through the vineyard. Time with the horses. Whatever kind of afternoon feels right. Joanne and I design every visit around the people coming.

No tasting room. No standing in line. No tour bus next to your table.
Just the ranch, vineyards and the horses, and a few hours that feel like yours.
1,200 cases a year. 250 wine club positions open right now. Membership is the only way in.
🍷 Free Insider Kit — link pinned in the first comment.

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Three photos of the same horse.Slide 1: Abby on her first night. A few hours old, standing up for the first time on legs...
05/26/2026

Three photos of the same horse.
Slide 1: Abby on her first night. A few hours old, standing up for the first time on legs she barely understood. Joanne and I have delivered every foal born at Bella Cavalli for the last 23 years — Abby was one of them.
Slide 2: Same horse, years later, carrying our grandson Brixton through his first ride. She walked the arena like she’d been waiting for the assignment her whole life.
Slide 3: Same horse, Brixton and his little brother Hayden meeting her at the fence. Hand reaching up. Nose reaching down. The patience between them isn’t something we trained. It’s something she came with.
A horse becomes what the people around her are. Twenty-three years on this property and Abby is the proof.
Tag someone who’d understand this. ❤️

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05/25/2026

When you join Bella Cavalli’s wine club, you’re joining more than just horses and wine.
That’s a red-tailed hawk being released at Bella Cavalli. The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network rescued and rehabbed him. We provided the land for him to fly free from.
The Network does this work all over the county — rescuing injured raptors, songbirds, mammals, every kind of native wild thing California has. When the animals are ready, they need a safe place to go. Big enough. Quiet enough. Right kind of terrain. Distance from roads.
Bella Cavalli happens to be one of those places. So whenever they call, we say yes.
Filmed this one in slow motion because the moment a hawk’s wings open and catch the air is one of the better things you’ll see on a working ranch. We’ve watched it dozens of times now. It hasn’t gotten old.
Twenty-three years on Highway 246. We’re a working horse ranch. We’re a boutique winery with 12 handcrafted styles. And we try to leave the land a little better than we found it.
The wine club is how we invite people in. Here’s how it works:
👉 Free to join. No signup fee, no annual dues.
👉 You pick your wines each shipment. 12 styles.
👉 You set the shipping interval. Our standard is every other month, but you can adjust it however works for you.
👉 Cancel anytime, or pause. Just drop us a quick email — that’s it.
👉 New members get a 6-varietal sample pack for $50 as the perfect way to start.
1,200 cases a year. None of it in stores. None of it in restaurants. Membership is the only way in.
250 positions in this release. Each one filled is one fewer available.
70% of our current members have been with us for over 10 years.
Come enjoy the ride. 🍷🦅
👉 https://join.bellacavallifarms.com/home-1718
With gratitude to the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network — sbwcn.org

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Came down to the barn at 4 AM to find this.That’s Bella. She apparently figured out how to unlatch her stall door. Then ...
05/23/2026

Came down to the barn at 4 AM to find this.
That’s Bella. She apparently figured out how to unlatch her stall door. Then — and this is the part that really gets me — she figured out how to unlatch everybody else’s stall doors. Then they had what I can only describe as a horse rave.
Blankets pulled down. Feed scoops scattered. Saddle pads launched into the aisle. The center aisle looks like the morning after a wedding nobody invited me to.
She stood there and looked at me like I was the one who’d done something wrong.
Twenty-three years training horses on this property and Bella is the smartest one I’ve ever owned. Which is exactly the problem.
Got a horse, dog, or kid who’s a little too smart for their own good? Tell me about them. 👇

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Summer is showing up early in the Valley 🍷We pulled together a quick guide to what’s happening from late May through Aug...
05/20/2026

Summer is showing up early in the Valley 🍷
We pulled together a quick guide to what’s happening from late May through August — jazz on the lawn in Los Olivos, the full PCPA season under the stars in Solvang, Wednesday night concerts in the park, the Buellton farmers market, July 4th fireworks at the Mission, and a whole lot more.
Save this one, share it with a friend who’s coming to visit, and tag someone you’re taking to Come From Away or Frozen at the Festival Theater.
See you out there.
— Jeff & Joanne
Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard
📍 959 E. Highway 246, Solvang
🌐 bellacavallifarms.com

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959 East Highway 246
Solvang, CA
93463

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