Baileyana Winery Edna Valley
Founded by Catherine Niven and operated by subsequent generations of the family, Baileyana Winery has begun producing a nice range of Pinot Noir offerings, many reaching into the 90 point range far outstripping the quality of their other offerings. The house style is restrained, even dramatically restrained when compared to nearby wineries which makes sense when considering the winemaker Christian Roguenant is French and worked for quite some time in the Champagne region. The winery started with a few acres of plantings on the family horse property and that vineyard named Firepeak still offers the highest quality wine made on the estate. Long a favorite choice for many a cheap wine club Baileyana Winery is showing increasing quality with an eye toward better scores and therefore better consumer sentiment in the future. Total production has also increased of late and now reaches approximately twenty five thousand cases of wine per year.