The Rockpile AVA is remarkable for several reasons. One is that, as AVAs go, it’s small. At 13,000 total acres, it’s the second smallest in Sonoma County (Sonoma Mountain is 6,000 acres).

Rosenblum's Rockpile Zinfandel comes from Rockpile Road Vineyard, planted in 1994 by Jack Florence Jr. on a hillside just up the road from his father's ranch, 1,000 to 1,200 feet above Lake Sonoma.

Fans of big, intense Zinfandels and Syrahs will want to keep an eye on Rockpile, Sonoma County's newest American Viticultural Area. The 15,000-acre region northwest of Dry Creek Valley has been ...

Rockpile is the latest American Viticultural Area to be approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The 15,400-acre appellation, located in the coastal mountains of northwest Sonoma ...