Jackson Family Wines  Jackson Family Wines is a wine company headquartered in Santa Rosa, California. At 6 million cases sold per year, it is the ninth-largest wine producer in the United States. Jackson Family Wines includes 40 brands, sourced from vineyards and wineries in California, Oregon, the Bordeaux region in France, Tuscany in Italy, Australia, Chile and South Africa. It controls in the United States and is the largest owner of coastal vineyards in California and Oregon. The family-owned company is known for the brand Kendall-Jackson. In 1974, Jess Jackson purchased an orchard in Northern California. He planted grapes on the land to attempt winemaking. Jackson Family Wines was founded in 1982, and its first vintage of Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay was released in 1983. In 1986, Jackson Family Wines purchased part of Tepusquet Vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley and established Cambria Winery. It established Stonestreet Winery in 1989 in the Alexander Valley. The company expanded into Sonoma and Mendocino counties in 1989, and the central and southern California coast in 1991. In 1993, it acquired La Crema winery in Windsor, California. In 1994, Jackson Family Wines acquired Tenuta di Arceno in Tuscany. It purchased Alexander Mountain Estate in 1995. In 1996, the company purchased Liparita Vineyard, which was renamed W.S. Keyes Vineyard. Jackson Family Wines established Carmel Road Winery in Monterey, California in 1997 and Vérité in Sonoma in 1998. The following year, it purchased the El Maitén estate in Chile. Jackson Family Wines expanded into Australia in 2000 with the acquisition of Eringa Park vineyard, which was renamed Yangarra Estate Vineyard. That same year, the company acquired Matanzas Creek Winery in Sonoma Valley. It continued an international expansion with the purchase of Château Lassègue in Bordeaux, France in 2003. La Jota Vineyard Co. on Howell Mountain was acquired by Jackson Family Wines in 2005. In 2006, the company acquired Byron Winery, Freemark Abbey, Arrowood and Murphy-Goode Estate Winery in Alexander Valley. The company planted Périgord truffle spores in its hazelnut and white oak orchard in 2011. Its first truffle harvest in 2017 produced 17 fungi. It acquired Hickinbotham Clarendon Vinyard in South Australia in February 2012.