Baywood Cellars is my personal triumph to produce affordable
Ultra-Premium wines. Having grown up in the Central Valley and
made many gallons of wine there, I had always had the desire to
"get my hands on" Coastal premium grapes to produce
really world renowned wines. My first opportunity at this great
allure was with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon fruit in 1992.
After this wine was bottled it immediately won five gold medals
over the course of a year. Retired from competitions due to sell
off. However, due to the extraordinary rising
costs of Napa vineyard ground and fruit, these types of wines
are not affordable to everybody.
That's why God gave us the Central Coast region,
so that everyone could be created equal. Central Coast wines are
by far earning their rightful place in the world of quality 
wines, at times equaling and many
times surpassing Napa and Sonoma wines in major wine competitions.
If you read the story I have written on the "Our Vineyards"
page, this will best describe the versatility of that region.
Another area of the Central Coast which is just
as important is the San Luis Obispo County region where you have
the warmer "red" climate around the Paso Robles area
and the cooler "west side" vineyards which are of course,
west of Paso Robles where the climate is even cooler and more
suitable to the Burgundian varieties. Many Napa wineries have
invested heavily in these areas and I will not mention any names
as I think that it is something the wineries themselves will do
at their own discretion. These areas are what make up the Baywood
Cellars Ultra-Premium table wines.
The Baywood Port is from our Lodi region vineyards
where the climate is almost identical to Portugal's Douro region
of which we explain more thoroughly down below on the Port page.
Our Symphony is also from Lodi since Symphony is a hybrid grape
of Muscat heritage. The Lodi region again duplicates the climate
of Southern France and Southern Italy where these varieties originated.
Also, since producing Symphony in 1987 from this region it has
won countless awards and we feel it is not necessary to tie up
coastal properties for a wine that is virtually unknown and could
be price sensitive.
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