Williams Selyem

Few wineries have had a deeper influence on the trajectory of American Pinot Noir than Williams Selyem. Founded at a time when California Pinot was still widely viewed as a curiosity—and often a compromised one—the winery not only proved that the grape could thrive in Sonoma’s Russian River Valley but also helped establish a new template for site-specific winemaking and direct-to-consumer engagement that reshaped the premium wine market in the United States.