Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard

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Out on FB. We have bought multiple headstalls for different disciplines. High quality craftsmanships and a pleasure to do business with.

They go that extra step and send you a hand written thank you card. Rare in today’s world, thank you Code West Tack

Estate-grown and traveling well. 🇺🇸🍷

A member cracked open our 2018 Grenache Rosé for the 4th and sent us a note we loved: “Very good. But… the 2017 is better. Bolder.” 😄 We’ll take it — a member with a favorite vintage is a member after our own heart.

Thank you for taking a little piece of the ranch wherever you go. 🤍

Days like this are exactly why we do what we do. 🥂

When one of our wine club members wanted to celebrate his birthday at the ranch, we were more than happy to set a place at the table. Good wine, good food, flowers, and the whole crew — four-legged family included — out on the grass under the oaks.

There’s nothing better than sharing our little corner of Solvang with the people who make this place special. Here’s to another year, and many more! 🎂

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Fog rolling off the mountains, lavender still damp, and two supervisors making sure the vineyard behaves itself. 🐾

Little Bro (aka “LB”) and Daisy take their Sunday watch duty very seriously. Some mornings at Bella Cavalli are for working the ranch. This one’s just for watching it wake up.

Happy Sunday from all of us in Solvang.

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Here’s where it started. 23 years ago, this was a worn-out board barn (top pic)

Our first remodel reimagined it into the rustic French country stone barn so many of you have come to love ( middle pic)

And now Joanne and I are giving it a fresh new chapter — French country with a touch of Kentucky show-barn elegance, from the stalls all the way to the arena (bottom )

Three chapters, one barn, a whole lot of love. Tell us what you think. 🐴

Enjoy the Ride! — Bella Cavalli Farms & Vineyard

One of our favorite weddings at Bella Cavalli.

A few years back, close friends asked if they could be married here on the ranch. Of course we said yes. The design they put together was incredible — chiffon overhead, rose petals down the aisle, vintage church pews, the vineyard framing the arch beyond.

Joanne and I watched from the back. A perfect day.
We didn’t build the ranch to be a wedding venue —

Bella Cavalli is a working horse facility and private winery. But when good friends ask, the answer is yes.

23 years of running this place, and the moments that matter most aren’t the ones we planned. They’re the ones our friends and members make here.
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Every summer, visitors see our horses grazing in their fly masks and ask the same question.
“What’s that on their faces?”

I tell them the horses are in the witness protection program.

Real answer: fly masks. They keep summer flies out of the horses’ eyes — they can see through them fine, bugs can’t get in.

The horse in this photo is JJ. Registered name Gunz in my Bunz. A four-year-old reining horse by Colonels Shining Gun. I started him myself, train him daily, and if he’s ready, we’re headed to the High Roller Reining Classic in Las Vegas this September.

Serious horse. Witness protection just makes for a better story. 🐴

Some moments at the ranch you can't script.

A few years back at one of our Kentucky Derby parties, a little girl in a sun hat wandered over to the stone barn to meet a horse for the first time. Sammy leaned down. She looked up. The whole afternoon paused for a few seconds.

Her parents are wine club members of ours. And what that little girl didn't know in that moment was that this is exactly the kind of memory Joanne and I built Bella Cavalli to create.

15 years of Derby parties. Vineyard walks. Picnics on the lawn. First meetings with horses. Members are family. Family makes memories.

Thanks, Sammy, for being such a good ambassador.
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