Discover what the land has to offer from this secluded gem in California’s South Coast.
Luna de Luz winery was founded in 2023. It is the first bonded winery in the De Luz District, an area with some vineyards, but mostly known for the production of avocados and citrus fruits. The winery and vineyards are located at Randhawa Ranch, a 97-acre luxury agricultural estate. Randhawa Ranch was founded in 2019 by Dr. Inderpal Randhawa. He is a world-renowned data scientist and physician who is a first mover in the artificial intelligence space. He founded the Food Allergy Institute, a treatment center with the first established clinical therapy for food anaphylaxis that utilizes AI to treat 10,000 patients and counting from all around the world. He is also the founder of TPIRC (Translational Pulmonary Immunology Research Center), a nonprofit research and care center that utilizes comprehensive diagnostic tools and patient-driven research to develop cutting-edge, individualized protocols to treat orphan diseases.
De Luz is a farming community on the west end of Riverside County. It is in the Santa Ana Mountains, west of the 15 freeway and just up the hill from Temecula Valley. At only a dozen miles from the Pacific Coast, and a short drive from San Diego’s Camp Pendleton, De Luz is not far from civilization, but it’s a special place; a secluded oasis of immense beauty & great abundance.
Prior to European settlement, the region was occupied by indigenous people collectively known as Payómkawichum, meaning “People of the West.” Throughout the late 1700s the number of Spanish explorers and missionaries in the area grew, and by the early 1800s, Spanish settlers called these people Luiseños due to their proximity to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in what is now Oceanside.