Carneros Quality. Sonoma Lifestyle. Gloria Ferrer. Gloria Ferrer takes pride in being the first winery in Carneros, California, and really building itself from the ground up. The house style of sparkling wine is rooted in a dynamic blend of innovation and consistency. The winemakers use creativity, ingenuity, and a gentle hand to reveal the distinctive Carneros terroir through our Pinot Noir-dominant sparkling wines. Different clones of each grape varietal are selected and planted for the different characteristics they offer when combined with different soil types and the location planted on the estate. We take pride in putting the utmost effort, dedication, and compassion into every single one of our still and sparkling wines that you are bound to enjoy. José Ferrer championed his family’s dream of producing exceptional traditional method sparkling wine in the New World. In the 1980s, he ventured from Barcelona, Spain to Sonoma, California with his wife Gloria in search of the ultimate region to make sparkling wine. Their dream would soon come true and they would become the founders of the first winery in Carneros. The potential of Los Carneros was unmistakable, even before it became an established AVA. They recognized the ideal climate for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay — and thus the perfect terroir for brilliant sparkling wines. Warm days, cool nights, predictable winds, summer fog, and a long growing season coax grapes to maturity slowly and consistently with a desirable balance of sugar and acidity. They immediately began planting the estate, three quarters with Pinot Noir vines and one quarter with Chardonnay vines. This would become the foundation for their crisp, elegant sparkling wines, consumed all over the United States.