Aperture
Vineyards & Winery
Aperture champions a range of expressive Bordeaux style wines from Sonoma County’s premier cool-climate Bordeaux varietal vineyard sites.
WELCOME TO THE ESTATE
We invite you to experience the Aperture gallery hospitality lounge, anchored in our historic Healdsburg vineyard where wine and art intermingle unlike anywhere else in wine country.
“A Winery Like No Other” – Forbes Magazine
Inside, inspired by Andy Katz’s renowned photography, the rooms and ceilings are designed to take advantage of the natural artwork created by the play of light and shadow throughout the day. And because we realize that some guests may want a more intimate experience, we offer a range of private rooms in which we proudly create perfectly curated experiences specifically tailored to meet your needs. Walk the vines. Enjoy the art. Savor the wines. We cannot wait to welcome you into our family, and into our world.
Our spring release wines are available now, including the 2024 vintage aromatic white wines, the Aperture Soil Series collection from the 2022 vintage, and a very special offering of the 2022 Proterra, a stunning Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon blend.
APERTURE EVENTS
Discover the Aperture collection of wines through curated events at our estate and select destinations nationwide—immersive experiences that reflect our passion for exceptional hospitality and distinctive, memorable moments.
“Aperture wines are small batch and they sell out quickly, but they are worth searching out, combining as they do the best of the Old and New World, delivering a powerful punch but well sculpted with natural balance and no acidification or other cellar tricks.”
-DECANTER MAGAZINE 2018
“Katz’s wines are surprising, with Old World structure and New World fruit, lush and representative of their origin, but also original, forward-thinking, not married to any regional stereotypes.”
-FORBES 2020
“Katz is among the winemakers and producers who are proving that Sonoma can offer beautiful, collectible, and varied wines to rival Napa Valley’s powerful”
-PENTA 2023
“…Producing some of Sonoma’s best examples of Bordeaux-inspired blends”
-AUDREY FRICK, JEB DUNNUCK 2024
VINEYARDS
Like the precise and varied array of lens filters in a professional photographer’s toolkit, we’ve identified a distinctly diverse set of vineyards, each harboring specific qualities that imbue our wines with varying shades of energy, tension, and complexity. Working with our legendary viticulturist Phil Freese, who helped shape the vineyards for Opus One and Robert Mondavi’s To-Kalon holdings in Oakville, we oversee every aspect of farming for sites in Northern California from our estate in Sonoma County to the Alexander Valley, Geyserville, Clarksburg, and Bennett Valley.
