Dr. Roman de la Cuesta was born in Spain and came to California in 1849. He married Micaela Cota daughter of Francesca Cota, of neighboring Rancho Santa Rosa, and was gifted Rancho de Vega (Spanish for “the meadow”) as a dowry. Dr. Roman de la Cuesta and Michaela Cota established their legacy at Rancho de Vega and built an adobe on the property. The home was built under great difficulty as there were no roads and the lumber had to be brought over Gaviota Pass on the heads of oxen, as even oxen carts could not get through. Their son Eduardo and his wife Eleva lived on the property for many years and grew wine grapes. The historic adobe they built still stands on the property. The adobe home was 13 rooms and is much as it was when first built.

In 1976 Bill Mosby and his wife Jeri found the favorable land and purchased the 206 acres of Rancho la Vega. They planted eighteen acres of wine grapes. The Mosby’s learned of the rich history that the ranch carried with it and thus Vega Vineyards was born, a family venture to sell wine grapes to wineries. In 1980 they changed the name from Vega Vineyards to Mosby Winery and focused on selling direct to customers out of the tasting room on the property.

We have continued this farming and hospitality tradition into modern-day Vega Vineyard and Farm. Demetrios and Karen Loizides had always been drawn to the region due to its similarities to Demetrios’s ancestral and grape-growing village of Kathikas, Cyprus and then his childhood town of the untamed Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

They realized their dream, purchased a farm, and wanted to share with friends and community. From there is where Vega Vineyard and Farm, a winery, restaurant and catering operation that offers a genuine “farm to table” model grew.