Each bottle of Kingston Family Vineyards wine shows the front door of our home in Chile. It represents five generations of family in the Casablanca Valley, beginning with my great-grandfather Carl John Kingston’s elusive search for copper and gold in the early 1900s near Santiago. Generations later, the Farm still serves as the cornerstone of our family business. Today we open the same door of the casa patronal, built more than a century ago, and invite our customers to explore our estate-grown vineyard in the heart of Chile’s wine country.

Since we started our farm in the 1920s, we’ve made the conscious decision to keep our family in the picture. Although I live in the San Francisco area with my husband and three daughters, that Chilean century-old farmhouse in the middle of 8,000 acres is also my home. I’m there every other month and for a year, we lived there full time and sent our kids to school with their Chilean primas. It’s where the five branches of my extended family gather for special occasions and where many of us spent summers riding horseback as children.