Courtney Kingston

Courtney Kingston is an American winemaker and entrepreneur whose work to pivot her family's Chilean dairy farm to growing wine is taught through case studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her company, Kingston Family Vineyards has been called one of the best wineries in Chile.

Personal life and education Kingston grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Princeton University for her undergraduate education. Her college thesis for her degree in Latin American studies was titled “A Crisis of Justice – Civil Liberties under the Pinochet Regime and during the Democratic Transition.” She then attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business for an MBA, graduating in 1997. After graduate school, she and her husband worked in the technology industry in San Francisco.

Career In 1994, Kingston and her siblings began discussing whether the 7,500-acre cattle ranch in Valparaiso, Chile where their father grew up could grow wine. Kingston was a management consultant for some California wineries at the time, and understood the potential. All their vines are farmed organically and planted on their own roots.

In 2003, the Kingston Family label produced 450 cases. In 2025, the winery produced 5000 cases.

Stanford has published two case studies about Kingston Family Vineyards.