Testarossa Winery by Peter Bruce Photo

Bernadette from Peter Bruce Photo shot  Karri & Gaberlli's wedding at the great Testarossa Winery.  This is one lovely spot. Testarossa Winery is located on the grounds of the Novitiate Winery, in the foothills just above downtown Los Gatos. The road leading up to this site winds through a pleasant residential neighborhood, but once you enter the Novitiate’s stone and wrought-iron gates, you leave the modern world behind.

It was on top of this knoll that Jesuits began missionary work in California in the late 1860s. The first seminary was built here in 1888, giving way to a more permanent winery building in 1893. The latter is a fine example of a 19th-century gravity-flow winery, with the top floor built for receiving and crushing harvested grapes. The Jesuits stopped making Novitiate wines in 1985 and leased the winery to Testarossa in 2003. The original winery building still stands, forming the core of the present-day winery.

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Cheers  Bernadette and Peter