Her family sold the ranch to Gallo in 1996, following the death of her father in 1991 at age 83. to be the creative consultant for MacMurray Ranch, a line of superpremium wines made by Gallo from Twin Valley Vineyard and other sites in the Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast. Now Kate MacMurray is back at Twin Valley Ranch, hired by E. John's Catholic Church, socializing with neighbors, Fred sitting on a bench in the downtown plaza on Sundays, reading the newspaper and smoking the pipe that was the trademark of his Steve Douglas character on TV's "My Three Sons." If the MacMurrays weren't in Hollywood, they were in Healdsburg, worshiping at St. The MacMurrays spent Easters, Thanksgivings, Christmases and summers at Twin Valley Ranch, and any other time that Fred wasn't required to be on a movie or TV set. The Chronicle's Wine Selections: Dry Creek Valley, Russian. It was also a sanctuary, far removed from the klieg lights of Tinseltown. No mere weekend retreat, this was a working ranch, with horses, sheep and 400 head of Aberdeen Angus cattle.
Kate grew up at her parents' home in Brentwood with her twin sister Laurie, yet much of their time was spent on the 1,750-acre Westside Road property, Twin Valley Ranch, that Fred MacMurray purchased in 1941. MacMurray, 46, a professional screenwriter, is daughter of the late actor Fred MacMurray and his actress wife, June Haver MacMurray. It's also a return home for Kate MacMurray - a move from Hollywood to vine. It's home to Williams & Selyem, Rochioli, Davis Bynum and Gary Farrell, wineries that helped put the Russian River Valley on the global wine map. This is Pinot Noir country - cool and foggy in the mornings and evenings during the growing season and sunny and warm in the afternoons, just as the finicky Pinot Noir grape likes it.
Horses and cattle grazing, redwood, oak and pine forests dotting the ridgetops and vineyards hugging the river and hillsides.
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