Reinstein Ranch is 80 acres in the Historic Livermore Valley, 45 minutes from San Francisco. Established in 1854 by a Regent of the University of California, it is one of the oldest continuously operating ranches in Northern California. Today it carries an equestrian operation with capacity for up to 90 horses, multiple tenanted residential structures, an active production rental history, and an active licensure distillery with a documented Prohibition-era heritage. The history is documented. The opportunity to acquire it exists once.
80 Acres
Historic
Established 1854
Documented provenance
Four Revenue Layers
Operating enterprises
$8,000,000
Current asking price
The Four Revenue Layers
The Equestrian Operation
Thirty boarding horses across four barns, with established infrastructure and capacity for up to 90 horses requiring no additional permitting, a distinction tied to the property's continuous historic use as a working ranch. An existing client community that has been building for decades. Currently active and accepting new boarders.
The Distillery
An active licensure distillery: the Prohibition-era heritage, the Paris 1900 World's Fair gold medal provenance, the production equipment, and eight barrels of estate-grown wheat whiskey aged seven years. Production is not currently active. The brand, inventory, and equipment transfer with the sale, ready for the next owner to restart.
The Event Venue
A 165-year-old draft horse barn, a tasting deck, a 1917 Packard flatbed bar, and open grounds. Large-scale events are not currently operating, but the venue maintains an active and ongoing history of film, music video, and photography production rentals, low-logistics revenue that continues today.
Tenant and Rental Income
Multiple residential structures currently tenanted, including two modular homes, a bunkhouse, a cottage, and an additional unit. Combined with boarding revenue, the ranch generates approximately $400,000 in annual income. The Ranch House is not included in that figure. It is the principal residence.
Historical Provenance
J. West Martin, UC Regent, established this ranch in 1854. His stepson, Thomas D. Carneal, III grew the wheat that won a gold medal in Paris in 1900. Frederick Reinstein arrived from Denmark in 1884, a cattleman, horseman, and wheat farmer by heritage and by temperament he came to the Livermore valley with the knowledge of people who have worked the same land for generations. Since then, five generations have stewarded the ranch. The 1860 draft horse barn still stands. Some of what has happened on this property is documented. The rest accumulated the way things accumulate on land that has been held with intention across 170 years.
