(Wines&Vines) - Buena Vista, arguably California’s first premium winery, is about to be reborn under the care of an unlikely savior: a Frenchman in love with California’s long wine history. Buena Vista Winery was founded in 1857 in Sonoma by mysterious Hungarian Agoston Haraszthy, the self-proclaimed “Count of Buena Vista” on a site where a Christianized Native American had planted vinifera vines. Though once one of Northern California wine country’s biggest draws, Buena Vista has languished of late, having five owners just between 2004 and last year, when Boisset Wine Estates bought the historic property just northeast of the town of Sonoma.