https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/10/01/saratoga-winery-plans-to-wrap-up-code-compliance-effort-amid-neighborhood-opposition/

After a years-long effort to bring the popular House Family Vineyards’ operations up to code following years of non-compliance, the Saratoga vineyard plans to wrap up its work by next spring.

The hillside vineyard has been working toward code compliance since the city found out in 2016 about an unpermitted open-air tasting deck it built in 2013, and told the business it needed a master plan and the appropriate permits to maintain its operations. Since 2022 it’s been holding scaled-back wine tasting operations with temporary approval from the city at Izumi Point, a Zen garden on the property, as it continues work on getting permits for the tasting deck, an underground wine cave and a fire access road.