Frey organic and biodynamic wines have lovely labels

“When we say that we are pioneers in organics, we’re not just paying lip service to our pioneer status. We’re actually situating ourselves as the fundamental players that brought organics into the wine industry,” says Molly Frey in conversation with her mother Katrina Frey, her sister Eliza, and Derek Dahlen vineyard manager. Organic and biodynamic pioneers Frey Vineyards Ranch became a bonded winery forty five years ago yesterday March 24— making them Mendocino’s winery number twelve. This year, they’re opening up their new winery facilities and making more plans for a green future with their extended family.

Back on March 24, 1980, Frey officially became a resale winery, but they were organic from the beginning when the family planted the vines in the 1960s. Demeter certified them biodynamic in 1996, and USDA certification came in 2003.

Frey family: assistant winemaker Eliza Frey and husband vineyard manager and biodynamic specialist Derrick Dahlen in a Texas kitchen following the eclipse

Today, multiple generations of Frey women live on the ranch and work with the winery including 100 year old matriarch Beba Frey, her daughter in law marketing maven executive director aka CEO Katrina Frey who married Beba’s son winemaker Jonathan Frey, their daughters Molly Frey who handles social media, and Eliza Frey who is on the winemaking team. Many more of Beba’s extended family are involved in all aspects of their operation on the slopes of Redwood Valley, in Mendocino County, California.

And as today March 25 is National Women in Wine Day,

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