Castello di Amorosa – 4045 St. Helena Hwy, Calistoga, CA 94515 In the hills just south of Calistoga stands one of Napa Valley’s most astonishing sights: a medieval Tuscan castle, complete with towers, battlements and a drawbridge. It...
Darioush – 4240 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 At the southern end of the Silverado Trail, Darioush rises from the vineyards like a vision of ancient Persia. Founders Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi grew up near Shiraz, Iran, a...
Stag’s Leap Cellars – 5766 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 Some vineyards become famous. Others become legend. At Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, the story begins in the hills of Napa Valley, where rugged volcanic soils, golden light, and...
Trefethen Family Vineyards – 1160 Oak Knoll Ave, Napa, CA 94558 In the heart of the Oak Knoll District, Trefethen Family Vineyards blends living history with three generations of family winemaking. At its center stands Eshcol, a striking...
Joseph Phelps Vineyards – 200 Taplin Rd, St. Helena, CA 94574 Nestled in the heart of Napa Valley, Joseph Phelps is a place where history, landscape, and winemaking come together with extraordinary grace. Founded in 1973 by Joseph...
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OPUS ONE – 7900 St. Helena Hwy, Oakville, CA 94562 The History “Opus” is a Latin word meaning an artistic composition by a well-established artist. If the taste of a Napa Valley wine could be compared to the...
Pine Ridge Vineyards – 5901 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 Tucked into the legendary Stags Leap District beneath a ridge of pines and the region’s rugged palisades, Pine Ridge Vineyards was founded in 1978 by Gary Andrus. More...
Del Dotto Winery & Caves – 1445 St. Helena Hwy S, St. Helena, CA 94574 It is one of Napa Valley’s most distinctive wine experiences, combining Venetian-inspired architecture, exceptional wines, and a spectacular cave cellar carved deep into...
Lewis Cellars – 6320 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 Lewis Cellars has deep roots in Napa Valley, long family-owned and built on a passion for small-batch, craft-driven wines. Following its acquisition by Justin Vineyards, the winery has entered...
Goosecross Cellars – 1119 State Ln, Yountville, CA 94599 The winery makes Napa Bordeaux the old way: from rock, restraint and a long, even season rather than sugar and new-oak gloss. The winery sits on State Lane, just...
A visit to Silver Oak (915 Oakville Cross Rd, Oakville, CA 94562) in Napa Valley is a highlight of any wine lover’s journey through California’s premier wine regions. Set in the heart of Oakville, this iconic winery is...
Alpha Omega – 1155 Mee Ln, St. Helena, CA 94574 An afternoon at Alpha Omega Winery feels like a perfectly composed snapshot of Napa Valley elegance. The tasting takes place in the beautiful yard overlooking a serene pond,...
ZD Winery – 8383 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 A tasting at ZD Wines offers a refined glimpse into the winery’s commitment to precision, balance, and timeless Napa Valley style. The experience begins with ZD’s Chardonnay, vibrant and...
Louis Martini Winery – 254 St. Helena Hwy S, St. Helena, CA 94574 The Winery has been making wine in the area for over 90 years, situated right in the heart of the Valley along highway 29, it...
Chateau Montelena – 1429 Tubbs Ln, Calistoga, CA 94515 Nestled against Mount Helena in Calistoga, hence the word play: “MonteLena”, Chateau Montelena boasts a incredible estate with a Classic Chateau, a Lake and cave cellar/tasting room. More notably,...
Honig Winery – 850 Rutherford Rd, Rutherford, CA 94573 A tasting visit to Honig Winery feels like a perfect Napa Valley pause—easygoing, welcoming, and beautifully unhurried. It’s an ideal spot for an afternoon of sipping and relaxing, especially...
Caymus Vineyards – 8700 Conn Creek Rd, Rutherford, CA 94573 In the past few years, guests have been enjoying their tasting at Caymus Vineyards in a lush and enchanted garden (See Video) Beautifully manicured landscape certainly had helped...
Raymond Vineyards – 849 Zinfandel Ln, St. Helena, CA 94574 If lady Gaga has a wine tasting event, this would be it. Artsy, colorful and Red allover, a visit to Raymond Vineyards and Winery will have your senses...
Trinchero Estate – 3070 St. Helena Hwy N, St. Helena, CA 94574 Menage a Trois, Sutter Home, Joel Gott and Napa Cellars, if these names sound familiar to you, it is because they are readily available at your...
Chimney Rock – 5350 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 From Silverado trail, approaching the heart of Stags Leap District, a white Church-like structure appearing from a distance, a Dutch Cape building surrounded by endless rows of grape vines....
Rombauer – 3522 Silverado Trail N, St. Helena, CA 94574 Rombauer has won wine drinkers many times over with its signature California-style Chardonnay. Expressive notes of tropical and stone fruits, laced with bright acidity and just a touch...
Seven Apart – 4057 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558 You couldn’t help it but appreciate the attention to details that went into building this winery. If that is any indication of quality and effort that went into crafting...
Round Pond Estate – 875 Rutherford Rd, Rutherford, CA 94573 If you are tired of over the top fruit bombs that tend to attract more tourists than wine lovers, head over to Round Pond Estate. Despite it being...
Ashes & DiamondsAshes & Diamonds brings a fresh, stylish spirit to the Napa table. Founded in 2014 by former music executive Kashy Khaledi, the winery looks back to the golden age of Napa winemaking in the 1950s through...
Tucked away in the back road between Silverado Trail and Highway 29, you can’t help but feel at ease here at Caymus Vineyards tasting room. Guests will be tasting wine in an impeccable garden, yet so tranquil; soon...
Elementary Cellars Volume I Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 Napa Valley Early in 2015, a gorgeous sun-blessed day in Napa Valley Wine country set up for some pleasurable wine tasting; quite a few outstanding wines on the list and Elementary...
Palmaz Vineyards – 4029 Hagen Road, Napa, CA 94558 Beautiful estate with an impressive cave winery. The entire production takes place inside a massive cave, 4-story high winery eliminates the use of mechanical pump entirely. Gravity transports wine...
Hendry Vineyards – 3104 Redwood Road, Napa, CA 94558 Tucked into the quiet Browns Valley neighborhood just west of downtown Napa, Hendry Ranch feels like a winery from another era, and that’s exactly its charm. There are no...
You can find dozens of not hundreds of different wine labels in your local supermarket, their prices can vary from two-buck chuck to hundreds of dollars per bottle, some specialty store may carry wines that cost over $1000...
Del Dotto Estate Winery & Caves: A palace inspired by Venice, with marble floors, Italian art and a candlelit cave lined with barrels, so every corner looks like a scene from Europe. The moody cave light, with wine...
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars: Its 1973 Cabernet beat Bordeaux’s top châteaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and put Napa Cabernet on the world map. Opus One: A 1979 partnership between Robert Mondavi and Bordeaux’s Baron Philippe de...
Tier 1: The Icons # Vineyard Area Known for Top bottling (example) Approx. price 1 To Kalon Oakville Napa’s most famous Cabernet site, first planted in the 1860s Schrader “Old Sparky” Cabernet (magnum only) ~$1,500–2,200 per magnum 2...
Chardonnay may be a single grape, but in Burgundy it becomes a study in nuance, and Chablis is its most austere, clear-eyed expression. Napa Valley, far away across the ocean, tells a very different love story. In Burgundy,...
Joseph Phelps VineyardsTucked into the hills east of St. Helena, Joseph Phelps offers one of the valley’s most serene places to sip. Its terrace looks out over sweeping vineyards to the rolling hills beyond. Settle in as the...
Caymus VineyardsCaymus welcomes guests into its newly remodeled tasting room, which opens onto a garden alive with native flowers. Poppies, sages and wild grasses sway in the Rutherford breeze, and hummingbirds and butterflies drift from bloom to bloom....
Napa Valley has long belonged to Cabernet Sauvignon, and across its sunlit floor and folded hillsides, countless cellars pour bottles worthy of the name. Among them, we return again and again to three: Rombauer, near St. Helena; Sequoia...
Trefethen Family VineyardsIn the heart of the Oak Knoll District, Trefethen welcomes guests to its historic 1886 Eshcol winery, Napa’s only surviving 19th-century wooden gravity-flow winery. Taste elegant, estate-grown wines surrounded by gardens and vines. Its Chardonnay once...
As we learned from the previous article that not all wines will get better with age, only a small number of them will. And when someone talks about aging wines, it isn’t 3 or 4 years they’re talking...
