A nearly 4-acre Cowan Heights estate in North Tustin that produces Orange County’s only award-winning wine and artisanal extra-virgin olive oil recently sold for $6.75 million.
The April 3 deal marks the highest priced sale in Cowan Heights in 17 years, second only to a 5-acre compound with an 8,219-square-foot main house and a 1,339-square-foot guesthouse that closed for $7.6 million in June 2007. The two estates couldn’t be more different.
A main house, guesthouse and a multifunctional winery building with a working farm anchor the near-record-selling estate. Across its bucolic grounds are an organic 110-tree olive grove and a 1,400-vine vineyard.
Records show the sellers are the husband and wife proprietors of the winery. They bought the property in January 2013 for $2.1 million. Their vineyard estate initially sought $8.88 million in 2022 when it hit the market, but it languished despite the efforts of a few top-producing Orange County listing agents.
“The challenge with the property has been that you’re buying a working farm that has to be kept up and maintained,” said Dean O’Dell of The O’Dell Group at Seven Gables Real Estate, the final listing agent hired to sell the property. “I don’t think people really understand how big 4 acres is until they walk it.”
The property includes the main house, which rests at the end of a long, tree-lined driveway with a limestone fountain motor court.
At just under 5,000 square feet, this two-story Tuscan-style farmhouse, which dates to 1967, is clad in stucco and stone with a clay tile roof. Beamed wood ceilings, parquet wood and inlaid limestone floors, wrought ironwork and fine millwork add to the handcrafted finishes indoors.
There’s a gourmet kitchen with a large island, a walk-in pantry and top-of-the-line appliances. A custom Dutch door opens the kitchen to a shaded patio.
The ground-level primary suite features a large walk-in closet, a steam shower, a soaking tub and dual vanities….
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