Mirassou Vineyards

Mirassou Vineyards sits in the Evergreen Valley section of southeast San Jose, in the 95135 ZIP code, around Aborn Road and Ruby Avenue with the Diablo Range foothills rising behind it. The name is not a marketing invention. This was wine country long before it was a neighborhood, and street names like Vinifera Drive and Winery Court still point back to it.

From Vineyard to Neighborhood

The land’s recorded history runs deeper than the vines. Evergreen was part of Rancho Yerba Buena, the Mexican era land grant to Antonio Chaboya, whose family name lives on at Chaboya Middle School and Chaboya Road. In 1911, John J. Montgomery ran his glider experiments in the Evergreen hills, which is why you will find Montgomery Hill Park nearby.

The winery itself traces its roots to 1854, when brothers Louis and Pierre Pellier started it in the Santa Clara Valley. Pierre Mirassou married Pierre Pellier’s daughter Henriette in 1881, and the Mirassou name went on to become one of the best known in California wine. Gallo bought the brand in 2003, but the San Jose winery was not part of that deal. The land was later sold, the winery came down, and houses replaced the vines. State environmental filings from 2010 still describe the corner of Ruby and Aborn as a former winery site.

Mirassou Vineyards Homes and HOA Communities

Most of what you see today went up in the 1990s and early 2000s, so homes here are newer than much of San Jose. Detached homes are typically Mediterranean or contemporary in style, often around 2,500 square feet on lots in the five to six thousand square foot range. Mixed in are HOA townhome communities with smaller floor plans, which hand off much of the exterior upkeep. With a house from this era, also check whether the original water heater and heating and cooling systems are nearing replacement.

If you are comparing the area with its neighbors, my guides to greater Evergreen and nearby Silver Creek show how the surrounding communities differ in age, lot size and price. Silver Creek runs larger and more expensive, while the older parts of Evergreen offer more single story ranch homes.

Schools Serving Mirassou Vineyards

Schools run through the Evergreen School District and East Side Union High School District. Depending on the address, younger kids go to Tom Matsumoto or Evergreen Elementary, with Chaboya Middle and Evergreen Valley High serving the older grades. Evergreen Valley College is close by on Yerba Buena Road. Assignment depends on the parcel and I verify it on every listing, since strong schools help hold demand from younger buyers when it comes time to sell.

Parks, Shopping and Daily Life

Daily life centers on Evergreen Village Square, a walkable cluster of shops, restaurants and services with a grocery market, a farmers market, summer concerts and the Village Square branch of the San Jose Public Library. Fowler Creek Park is the largest local park, with a playground, picnic pavilions and tennis courts, and the Evergreen Village duck pond makes for an easy walk. Paved trails link many of the smaller parks.

When you want more room to roam, Joseph D. Grant County Park covers nearly 11,000 acres with about 51 miles of trails, the largest regional park in the county. No freeway runs along the neighborhood, which helps keep it calm. Highway 101 is the closest, a short drive west, and the airport is about twenty minutes away.

Is Mirassou Vineyards a Good Fit for Downsizers?

For the clients I work with, the big question here is stairs. Many of these homes were designed for growing families and have more than one story, so a main floor bedroom suite is the feature to look for if you plan to stay for the next twenty years, and my guide to single level homes in Silicon Valley covers where to look if you need to get off the stairs altogether. Townhomes reduce upkeep, but most still have stairs, and HOA dues vary by community. Reserves and special assessments matter a lot more when you are on a fixed income, so I review them with you before you write an offer.

Public transit is limited, so most errands outside the Village Square mean a car. Regional Medical Center in East San Jose is now county owned and has restored its Level 2 trauma services, and the city’s Evergreen Community Center on San Felipe Road serves senior nutrition meals and offers free memberships for adults 50 and over. The Villages, the gated 55 and over community in the Evergreen foothills, is a short drive away, and my Prop 19 guide explains how homeowners 55 and over can carry their property tax base to a replacement home.

The Mirassou Vineyards Housing Market

According to Redfin’s Mirassou Vineyards market data, the median sale price over the three months ending September 2026 was about $1.8 million, down 23.4 percent from a year earlier, with homes taking around 44 days to sell. Not many homes sell here in a given month, so short term numbers swing hard, and a drop like that says more about which homes sold than about values falling by a quarter. That is still well above the San Jose citywide median of roughly $1.35 million, and my guide to living in San Jose covers the rest of the city.

If you bought here when these homes were new, your gain may well be past the $250,000 single or $500,000 married exclusion on a primary home, so it pays to understand capital gains before you decide on timing. Your tax advisor should run the actual numbers, and doing that early gives you and your family many more options.

Frequently Asked Questions About Mirassou Vineyards

Adult children often start this conversation for a parent, and that takes some care. Walking older adults and their families through exactly that is my full time practice, from the first conversation about whether to move to the day the house closes. Book a call with me to talk it through.