Angele & Virgile Galleron in 1913

Galleron is the name of a respected winegrowing family in Rutherford, California who have been an integral part of the Napa Valley wine community for 89 years. Galleron Road, named for the Galleron family in 1943, has historically been a marker for the Galleron homestead as well as a tribute to the Galleron family who is intimately linked with the history of the Napa Valley.

French immigrants, Virgile and Angele Galleron, settled in the heart of what is now the Rutherford grape growing appellation in 1918. They purchased 402 acres of land from a well-to-do San Francisco couple, Frederick and Mary Houston for $85 an acre. The Galleron's were originally sheep herders from the Haute Alpes region of France and continued their profession in the New World by herding sheep on their new property as well as harvesting their orchards of walnuts, prunes, peaches and grapes.

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