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The Mandeville Canyon property's 130 mature vines can produce about 110 bottles of wine every year.
Photos by Anthony Barcelo
You don’t have to move all the way to California’s Napa Valley to enjoy a the wine country lifestyle in Los Angeles.
This three-quarter-acre property on a private lane in the Mandeville Canyon area of the ritzy Brentwood neighborhood offers the chance to snap up a micro-vineyard along with a snazzy new home. The timeless, farmhouse-like residence comes with roughly 130 mature vines, enough to make about 110 bottles of wine each year, if you feel like experimenting with the viniculture.
The ceiling soars two stories over the light-filled eat-in kitchen that spills out to the yard.
The $17 million residence also offers plenty of non-wine-related amenities for the teetotalers: a basketball court for shooting some hoops, a secluded pool area with a separate guesthouse, and an outdoor kitchen and dining terrace anchored by a hand-stacked stone fireplace because a simple fire pit would have been too pedestrian.
The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom abode has been spruced up by the designer Zenzi Gadson of Maurice Gadson Interiors, who went for an elegant and sophisticated design scheme, utilizing top-notch features including vintage French lighting fixtures, Calacatta stone, and whimsical Christian Lacroix wallpaper.
A stacked-stone fireplace anchors a walled patio notched into the vegetated hillside.
The versatile layout offers plenty of discrete options for both casual and formal hangs with friends and family. The wood paneling in the first-floor family room is mirrored in the upstairs media room, the latter of which is equipped with surround sound perfect for movie nights. Dinner parties in the dark-blue dining room are lent an added touch of warmth thanks to a fireplace, and the double-height kitchen is a bright, airy space where you can imagine parties spilling from the central island out to the lounge area just outside.
Available through Tara Rodgers-Culbertson at Compass, the Brentwood estate is a rare vineyard listing in Southern California. A similar property popped up for sale a couple of years ago: the $15 million Santa Clarita spread was home to the Agua Dulce Winery, and it had a brief star turn in the short-lived ABC series Promised Land. More common, of course, are vineyard estates in Northern California. Over the summer, one with 13 acres of vines hit the market in Napa Valley for a cool $21 million.
by Tori Latham
Tori Latham is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. She was previously a copy editor at The Atlantic, and has written for publications including The Cut and The Hollywood Reporter. When not…