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Nature’s Beauty Is Your Constant Companion on This Property

The family-friendly town of Ramona in the heart of San Diego County is well-known for its miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails. But in the past decade or so, Ramona has also established itself as a destination for wine lovers.

Set in the broad, mountain-rimmed valley of Santa Maria, Ramona became America’s 162nd American Viticultural Area or AVA in 2006 due to its distinctive microclimate, elevation and soil attributes. An AVA designation is a wine grape-growing region that places requirements on the local wineries to purchase the bulk of their grapes locally in order to maintain a license to sell wine. Further boosting Ramona’s growing reputation as the county’s “wine country” was San Diego County’s 2013 approval of tasting rooms in the valley, which allows boutique wineries to open retail outlets and tasting rooms to the public.

Richard Murdock, a principal at Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services, and Steven Malley, president, have a listing on a one-story, ranch-style home on nine acres that supplies grapes to the burgeoning wine industry in Ramona.

The vineyard, dubbed “Yeagley Vineyards,” is named after an Irish great grandmother of the owners. The vineyard produces estate-quality, award-winning varietals of Cabernet, Zinfandel, Syrah and Picpoul Blanc.

The property is on the desirable far west side of Ramona at 16805 Highland Valley Road and is priced at $1.975 million. The home is 3,750 square feet with four bedrooms and three baths. The stunning pool and spa area is down a charming garden path a few steps from the house. There is also a water solar-heating system and a separate dog run with a large dog/storage house. The property had a complete interior/exterior renovation in 2006 including tile flooring, decorator color schemes and sound system heard throughout the home and the outside pool area.

The entrance to the home is up a circular drive behind a tall, stucco and wrought iron fence with a large patio surrounded by a professionally landscaped yard reminiscent of an English garden.

“There is so much going on with the property; how much time do you have?” Murdock asked. “First of all it’s a producing vineyard and this time of year it’s in bloom. The grapes are just little tiny guys right now but you can see the clusters. It’s really one of the best parts.”

Murdock said the other major feature is the one-acre lake that it shares with another property owner, complete with a trolley-motor boat.

“It’s like living in a park

The kitchen nook and view to the extensive outdoor living space in a home at 16805 Highland Valley Road in Ramona. Photo courtesy of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services

,” Murdock said. “The setting is real woodsy, all sorts of trees: pine trees, eucalyptus, big beautiful oak trees. Ramona is notorious for its oak trees. A lot of them are illuminated at night with lights, so anybody who is out by the lake or the pagoda area can just turn on the lights and it lights everything up.”

Indeed, the property is magical.

The land immediately surrounding the house is elegantly landscaped with a large brick patio completely fenced in with various areas to sit and enjoy the view of Mount Woodson and the surrounding hills. Stone stairs lead off of several exit points through gates in the fence that lead down to the lower portions of the property and toward the lake. The fenced vineyard is off to the southeast, as is a coyote-proof coop with heirloom chickens near the raised, organic vegetable garden. The lake area has a pagoda for enjoying a glass of wine, the views and the ducks that frequent the water.

“The lake overflows a dam that was built by the Corps of Engineers,” Murdock said. “It was the original water source for the area that irrigated a lot of turkey farms and avocado and citrus trees. It overflows under a bridge and a tunnel; the water runs through that and comes out as a 60-foot waterfall.”

Mudock said down by the waterfall is a viewing deck where “you can sit out there and watch the water pound down.”

Another added bonus, he said, is that every year various wineries line up to purchase the grapes, so every year the prices go up steadily.

Send Kudos/Giving items to sglidden@sdbj.com.

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