McManis Family Vineyards has placed its Ripon winery facility and 10 vineyard properties throughout San Joaquin and Sacramento counties on the market. Altogether, the properties cover nearly 3,500 acres and carry combined asking prices of just under $78 million.
One of Ripon’s best-known agricultural businesses is facing a major change.
McManis Family Vineyards has placed its Ripon winery facility and 10 vineyard properties throughout San Joaquin and Sacramento counties on the market. Altogether, the properties cover nearly 3,500 acres and carry combined asking prices of just under $78 million.
The winery property in Ripon is being offered for $22.5 million and includes approximately 122 acres. The facility has the capacity to crush up to 50,000 tons of grapes annually and bottle as many as 3 million cases of wine. The remaining properties are being offered individually, with asking prices ranging from $800,000 to $14 million.
For Ripon, the listing is notable because the McManis family has been part of the area’s agricultural community for generations.
According to the winery, the McManis family has been farming in California’s northern interior since 1938. Ron and Jamie McManis founded McManis Family Vineyards in 1990 and built the winery in 1998. Today, members of the fifth generation of the family are involved in the business. The company says it farms more than 3,600 acres of wine grapes in areas that include Ripon, Lodi and Clarksburg.
The properties are going on the market during what has become a difficult period for California’s wine industry, with producers dealing with weaker demand, an oversupply of wine grapes and changes in international sales.
McManis has been particularly affected by a sharp drop in business from Canada.
The company previously told The Sacramento Bee that Canada, primarily Ontario, had accounted for about 40% of its export sales, or roughly 75,000 cases. Between July 2025 and July 2026, shipments to Canada dropped to approximately 1,000 cases following the removal and boycott of U.S. alcohol products in Canadian markets amid the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade dispute.
The impact goes beyond bottles carrying the McManis name. About 90% of the winery’s business has involved growing and crushing grapes to produce bulk wine for other wine companies, according to reporting by The Sacramento Bee. That side of the business has also been affected as other wineries deal with many of the same market pressures.
The sale does not necessarily mean the McManis Family Vineyards name is going away.
The real estate listing states that the McManis brand can be discussed separately, meaning the winery facility, individual vineyards and rights to the brand do not necessarily have to be purchased together. The properties themselves are also available separately rather than only as one large package.
That leaves plenty of questions about what McManis Family Vineyards will look like after the properties are sold and whether a future buyer will continue operating the Ripon facility as a winery.
For now, the company’s website continues to list McManis Family Vineyards at 18700 East River Road in Ripon, along with its current wines and company information.
The listing represents a potentially significant change for a family business that has spent more than three decades building its name in Ripon and throughout California’s wine industry.
Our Ripon will continue following the sale and what it could mean for the winery, its employees and the future of the McManis Family Vineyards brand.