As of 2010 Kendall-Jackson was the highest-selling brand of "super-premium" wine (retailing for more than US$15 per bottle) in the United States, often compared in blind tastings to 1er Cru wines of Volnay, Burgundy.

[1] In 1974, San Francisco land-use attorney Jess Jackson and his wife Jane Kendall Wadlow Jackson converted an 80-acre (32-hectare) pear and walnut orchard in Lakeport, California to a vineyard and sold wine grapes to local wineries.

The company disclosed a succession plan in March 2011, announcing that president Rick Tigner would be transitioning into the position of CEO.

Don Hartford and Barbara Banke oversee the family's interests on the board of directors.

In April 2024, together with La Crema, Kendall-Jackson was named the Official Wine Sponsor of USA Basketball.