Staglin family vineyard estates

The Staglin Family Vineyard has a year heritage of viticulture and a rich social history based on an extraordinary procession of owners through multiple generations.

In , 47 year-old John Steckter, and his wife Mary E.

Harris Steckter, purchased a acre parcel for $34 an acre from Serranus Clinton Hastings, one of the wealthiest pioneers and capitalists of early California. They cleared the land and built a large wood frame residence and several barns on their new farm where they propagated 60 acres of grapes surrounding the home dedicating the remaining acreage for cattle and wheat.

In a local newspaper described their Rutherford property as, “a fine dwelling upon the rising ground near the foothills..” In this home John and Mary raised their six children, four daughters and two sons.

After the death of John Steckter in , Mary was forced to sell the property due to litigation at which time it