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Napa Valley | St.
Helena | Wineries | Wine
Tastings
 Charles
Krug Winery - The Charles Krug Winery, first in the
Napa Valley and established in 1861, is owned and operated by the
Peter Mondavi Family. Since 1943, three generations of the Peter
Mondavi Family have been pioneers and innovators in the Napa Valley
wine industry. Today the family continues their stewardship of 850
acres of estate land with organic and sustainable farming practices
and state-of-the art winemaking techniques. Located one-and-a-half
miles north of St. Helena, the Charles Krug Winery focuses production
on lush red Bordeaux style blends, New Zealand style Sauvignon Blanc
and classically crafted Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and Zinfandel.
PUBLIC TASTINGS
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967-2200 DIRECTIONS
 Chase
Cellars - At S. E. Chase Family Cellars, we have a
deep appreciation for old vines. Planted in 1903, the vines are
head pruned, dry-farmed and are planted on St. George rootstock.
The gravely soil combined with a slight slope consistently produces
the most exuberant and expressive Zinfandel grapes in the Napa Valley
. These unique grapes create one of the most robust Zinfandels from
the Napa Valley region. Our vineyard side tasting area allows you
to enjoy our outstanding views while enjoying our latest releases.
Sit under 135 year-old olive trees and enjoy the breeze. Bring along
a picnic if you wish. We are open by appointment only so be sure
to call or email first to arrange your vineyard tour and tasting.
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963-8716 DIRECTIONS
 Girard
Winery -The narrow, winding road up Sage Canyon leads
a traveler to one of Napa Valley's best kept secrets: Pritchard
Hill, where mountain wineries such as Bryant Family, Colgin and
Chappellet have carved a niche into the steep slopes. It's here
that you will also find Girard Winery, founded 32 years ago at the
dawn of New Age winemaking in California. Today, Girard farms 40
acres of vines, 18 of which are located on Pritchard Hill. The picturesque
vineyards surround a newley renovated winery, where visitors can
experience refined flavors inside the rustic elegance of Girard's
mountaintop cellars and tasting room. On hillsides high above Napa
Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon is king. And Girard winemaker Marco DiGiulio
lets terroir - or the vineyard - determine his choice of varietals.
It's no wonder Girard's Cabernet ripens well on this rugged terrain,
with views that stretch clear across the valley.
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968-9297 DIRECTIONS
 Howell
Mountain Vineyards - Howell Mountain is located northeast
of St. Helena, above the Silverado Trail, with the Napa Valley to
the west and Pope Valley to the east. With its high elevations,
the mountain avoids the influence of fog that blankets the valley
floor beneath, creating a climate that is cooler than most of Napa
Valley during the day, but warmer at night. Because of this, Howell
Mountain grapes have a character distinct from those grown on the
Napa Valley floor, and have led to the region being recognized in
1983 as Napa Valley's first sub-appellation. The appellation encompasses
around 14,000 acres, yet only 600 acres are planted due, in part,
to the rugged nature of the region. The soils of this area are mostly
well-drained tuff and volcanic rock. Water retention is poor, producing
vines with low vigor and deep roots. These conditions are ideal
for growing grapes that are small, tightly clustered and powerfully
concentrated, for intense fruit flavors in the wines.
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967-9676 DIRECTIONS
 Joseph
Phelps Vineyards - Founded in 1972, Joseph Phelps Vineyards
is an independent, estate-based winery located outside of St. Helena.
Perched on a knoll in bucolic Spring Valley, the graceful redwood
winery overlooks vineyard-studded hills, the town of St. Helena
and the Mayacamas Mountains to the west. After years of studying
the complex relationship between wine quality and place, and understanding
the importance of "terroir," Phelps has developed estate-owned
vineyards in the premiere growing regions of Stag's Leap, Rutherford,
Oakville, Oak Knoll and the eastern foothills of Napa. In Sonoma
County, an ambitious project was undertaken in 1999 to purchase
land and develop vineyards along the western frontier of the Sonoma
Coast, and today Phelps has 80 acres of Pinot Noir and 20 acres
of Chardonnay planted in Freestone. A small winery in the midst
of the Freestone vineyards is currently under construction.
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963-2745 DIRECTIONS
 Livingston-Moffett
Wines - Lured by its small town character and lovely
setting, we came to St. Helena in 1976 to raise a family of six
children. Unlike many others who have arrived in the past 25 years,
there was no forethought of our ever joining in the wine business.
Little did we suspect that the decision to move to the Napa Valley
was the first step in doing just that. And looking back we must
have been clueless not to recognize the seeds of this life change
all around us. First, our new address was in fact Cabernet Lane.
Also, unbeknownst to us, the land we had purchased happened to be
located on the Rutherford Bench – Napa’s prized Cabernet
growing district. The property included five acres planted with
old, dry-farmed Cabernet vines on St. George rootstock that had
escaped the ravages of phylloxera.
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963-2120 DIRECTIONS
 Markham
Vineyards - Bruce Markham arrived in the Napa Valley
almost 100 years after Laurent, also looking to start a winery.
Markham bought the Yountville vineyard in 1975, the Calistoga vineyard
in 1976, the old Laurent Winery in 1977 and the Oak Knoll vineyard
in 1978. With almost 225 planted acres and a winery, Bruce Markham
founded Markham Vineyards in 1978 and the old Laurent Winery was
reborn. Markham focused on Cabernet Sauvignon in its early days
and introduced the Markham Merlot with the 1980 vintage. Between
1978 to 1988 the winery's production increased from 3,500 cases
to 20,000 The wine quality and praise from wine critics and consumers
increased as well.
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963-5292 DIRECTIONS
 Neyers
Vineyards - Neyers Vineyards sits in the heart of the
Napa Valley but Ehren’s experience as a winemaker in France
and Bruce’s experience with French wine importer Kermit Lynch
have had an undeniable influence on our work. Many French wine producers
farm organically, make their wines naturally without use of cultured
yeast or laboratory designed malo-lactic starters, and bottle their
wines without fining or filtration. We like their results and utilize
many of their ideas. The production of outstanding wine is invariably
accompanied by some degree of risk. Our barrels are made in France,
to our specifications, from wood that we buy at auction and air
dry for three years, a year longer than normal. All of our grapes
are picked by hand, into half-ton bins, then laboriously hand sorted
at the winery. Grapes that require a drive of more than thirty minutes
to our winery are delivered in refrigerated trucks.
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963-8840 DIRECTIONS
 Spottswoode
Winery - Our annual vertical tastings are something
that all of us at the winery relish every year, as they provide
us with a focused opportunity to re-visit our now two decades worth
of Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon. Fascinating, as we never know
quite what to anticipate from each vintage – it seems that
we have all learned to toss out our expectations, and tasting the
wines blind allows for objectivity and consistently results in lots
of surprises. Whenever these tastings are mentioned in public situations
they tend to elicit dreamy-eyed reactions and sighs from wine fans,
who wish that they might also have annual opportunities to taste
all of our vintages together. We feel lucky indeed!
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963-0134 DIRECTIONS
 Seavey
Vineyard - From its 40 acre hillside vineyard, surrounded
by several hundred acres of wilderness, Seavey Vineyard handcrafts
two styles of Cabernet Sauvignon plus small lots of Merlot and Chardonnay.
Yields are less than two tons per acre leading to wonderfully rich
concentrated wines, all 100% estate grown, produced and bottled.
A visit to Seavey Vineyard, four miles east of Saint Helena in the
Napa Valley, is not only about tasting award winning wines produced
in the finest classic tradition, but also a rare opportunity to
experience a vineyard and winery whose traditions mirror images
of the original “Napa Valley".
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963-8339 DIRECTIONS
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