“Wine is bottled poetry. ” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Conrado Cellars, a maker of award-winning wines, is operated by The Conrado Company, which specializes in the construction of luxury custom homes with diverse architectural styles. Many of the homes built by The Conrado Company are enhanced by beautiful vineyards, which yield grapes for our fine Conrado Cellars wines.
Conrado Cellars got its start in 1992, when Paul Conrado of The Conrado Company planted a vineyard at one of its custom homes. Since then, we have either planted or helped plant nearly a dozen vineyards on properties in the foothills above Silicon Valley. In that short time, many of our wines have been honored at regional and national wine competitions and fairs.
Conrado Cellars is a proud and active participant in our local community. In addition to the Bella Vina vineyard, which is located at the home of winemaker Paul Conrado, contributing vineyards adorn the properties of several Conrado Company clients, members of the local community and the Sacred Heart Church in Saratoga, California. Conrado Cellars gives away our award-winning wines to friends--who often help harvest our grapes and bottle our wines--and to various charities in an effort to support their fundraising activities. Please note that Conrado Cellars is not a commercial winery, and we do not sell our wines to the public.
We hope you enjoy your visit to this portion of our web site. Throughout this site, we discuss how we maintain our vineyards and improve the quality of our grapes, and we even share many of the formulas we use to make our wines. Feel free to use any of this information to guide you throughout your own winemaking adventures.