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Wineries - Page 2
 
 Long
Vineyards - During the 1880s, Italian American homesteaders
planted the first vines on the 120-acre Long Vineyards parcel. Prior
to Prohibition, 20 acres of Zinfandel provided grapes for St. Helena
wineries and, apparently, during Prohibition for black-market brandy.
When Chris and Bob Long, Sr. purchased the property in 1966, we
found parts of old stills buried in debris piles along with hundreds
of bottles and jugs, and old timers in St. Helena recalled for us
stories of the streams of buyers from San Francisco and Oakland
who came looking for brandy and wine made in these hillsides.
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 Benessere
Vineyards - In 1994, John and Ellen Benish purchased
a 42 acre parcel of land in the Napa Valley which included an old
winery and vineyard with the idea of making a little bit of wine
and establishing a legacy for their children and grandchildren.
That old dilapidated winery, phylloxerated vineyard and farmhouse
have been replaced by a modern working winery, Sangiovese vineyard
and comfortable home. The Benish' passion for winemaking and grape
growing stemmed from a family vacation to Europe in the 1980's.
There, in the countryside they saw the tradition of winemaking and
grape growing which allowed ties from generation to generation to
perpetuate an element of quality and tradition.
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 Cain
Vineyard & Winery - is dedicated to our signature
Cabernet blend, Cain Five. Composed of the five classic varieties
of the Cabernet/Bordeaux family, Cain Five epitomizes the benefits
of blending to achieve a complex wine, supple and rich of texture,
combining a full, firm structure with a long and subtle finish.
In 1980, Joyce and Jerry Cain purchased part of the McCormick Ranch,
a homestead dating back to the 1840s. The Cains were in search of
a unique mountain property where they could realize their dream
of planting the five classical Bordeaux varieties from which to
draw one ideally structured wine—a blend of all five varieties.
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 Charter
Oak Winery - Charter Oak Winery is a small boutique
producer of one of the most exceptional world-class Zinfandels.
Charter Oak wine is unfined and unfiltered. The grapes are fermented
on natural yeast. I use tools crafted by my grandfather (Nonno in
Italian) to punch down the cap three times a day. I work the must
into a foaming lather. No one makes wine quite this way. We believe
the secret to our success is the natural fermentation and the punch
down of the cap with hand-made wooden tools, which is done religiously
over and over. There is nothing quite as beautiful than to see the
sun shining down on the purple grape juice as it bubbles to the
top. I live for this and it nourishes my soul.
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 Chateau
Boswell - At Chateau Boswell we strive to be responsible
to our community's ongoing dependence upon a strong environmental
structure by being not only a sustainable agricultural property,
but also a totally organic one. Our vineyards and landscaping are
all maintained by hand labor, ours and our employees, and with this
closeness to our land and fruit we have developed a very sensitive
and attention to detail approach to the production of our hand crafted
wines. The original Chateau Boswell vineyard was planted with one
of the earliest French Cabernet Sauvignon clones brought to America.
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 Clark-Claudon
Vineyards - At Clark~Claudon Vineyards, Estate Grown
Cabernet Sauvignon is artistically crafted by the vineyards, the
seasons and a labor of love. Family owned and operated, we strive
to produce a limited amount of exceptional wine. We believe that
our estate wine is largely produced in the vineyard where all that
contributes to beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon fruit takes place. Thus,
the terroir, viticultural practices and growing season define our
wine such that each vintage is in fact that season in a bottle.
Clark~Claudon Cabernet Sauvignon is produced from 100% Estate Grown
Cabernet Sauvignon fruit.
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 Chappellet
Vineyard - Chappellet’s dramatic Pritchard Hill
estate vineyards, rise from 800 to 1,800 feet above sea level. Known
as “Napa’s Grand Cru,” Pritchard Hill has established
itself as one of the world’s great Cabernet growing regions.
With its steep slopes, rocky volcanic soil, ideal sun exposure and
cooling evening breezes, Pritchard Hill is the perfect place to
grow Bordeaux varietal grapes. Over thirty years of farming the
slopes of Pritchard Hill has enabled Chappellet to learn the growing
conditions and challenges presented by each vineyard block and how
to use the distinct characteristics of their mountain fruit to produce
truly extraordinary wine.
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 Corison
Wines - Cathy Corison produces two limited-production
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons, hand-crafted without compromise
from some of the finest vineyards in the Napa Valley. The fruit
for the Corison Cabernet Sauvignon comes from the western benchland
near Rutherford, where deep, stony alluvial soils promote ideal
growing conditions for the Cabernet vine. Formerly noted as one
of the great "virtual" Napa Valley wineries, Corison has
now built a new barn/winery on route 29 between Rutherford and St.
Helena. The winery is situated amidst the vines of Kronos Vineyard,
which is the source of Corison's distinctive Kronos Vineyard Cabernet
Sauvignon.
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 Franciscan
Oakville Estate - Franciscan Oakville Estate has been
making award-winning wines in Napa Valley for over 25 years. Beginning
with 240-acres in the heart of Napa Valley's Oakville growing district,
Vintner Agustin Huneeus earned a reputation as one of Napa's great
innovators with Cuvée Sauvage, Napa Valley's first wild-yeast
fermented Chardonnay, and Magnificat, one of Napa Valley's first
Bordeaux-style proprietary blends. Agustin Huneeus' passionate belief
that great wines are an expression of great vineyards has been the
driving force behind the classic Napa Valley wines we produce.
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 Frias
Family Vineyard - Our wine is about differences and
a slice of life. We offer a 100% single vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon and a microclimate taste of the Spring Mountain Appellation.
Frias Family Vineyards was founded with our first official vintage
in 1991. We purchased 100 acres in 1977 and planted only 5 acres
in 1985. We focus only on producing the finest Estate Grown Cabernet
Sauvignon. Our operation is small and family owned. My wife and
grown children help carry out this labor of love by participating
in nurturing the vines, blending, bottling and of course quality
control!
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 Grace
Family Vineyards - After nearly a decade of growing
grapes, Dick and Ann brought their friend, renowned winery architect
John Lail, in to design a uniquely charming and evocative building
for making wine. The hand carved wooden entrance leads to a small,
sculptured stone and wood sanctuary that evokes the kind of serenity
and beauty found more commonly in the Buddhist temples of Nepal
than in the wineries of California. This winery temple is a testament
to a philosophy of living that transcends fine wine as a beverage,
making it also a catalyst for change.
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 Judd's
Hill Winery - Napa Valley visitors and friends know
the Finkelsteins’ domain to overflow with a hugely personal
mix of interests and talents, from Judd’s ukulele playing
to Holly’s hula dancing to Art’s pottery and cooking
and Bunnie’s love of poetry, tuba-playing and knitting. This
array of art and the arts may be unique among Napa Valley winemaking
families. "The process of winemaking is extraordinary in my
experience," Art says. "It has to be the most complex
and challenging of all art forms. I am amazed by it."
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 Herb
Lamb Vineyard - At Herb Lamb Vineyards, we grow and
produce Cabernet Sauvignon. Because our hillside property faces
northeast and the mountain temperatures are milder, we tend to experience
an earlier bud break. While the valley floor lies in a blanket of
fog in the early spring, we catch the early sun and the brisk winds
blowing through our canyon help to avert any frost. The angle of
the last of the summer sun also allows for a longer growing season
- we rarely harvest before October, giving the grapes a certain
mountain-grown intensity not achieved in vineyards growing on the
valley floor.
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 Heitz
Wine Cellars - When Heitz Cellars opened in 1961, the
Napa Valley had fewer than twenty wineries. Today there are more
than two hundred. The original winery on St. Helena Highway is still
open to the public as a sales and tasting room for visitors and
is a glimpse into the origins of Heitz Cellars. Within a few years
Heitz Cellars had outgrown the original premises and purchased the
present 160 acre residence and ranch on Taplin Road, a narrow fold
in the hills just east of St. Helena. The home property was originally
developed as a vineyard and winery in the 1880s by the Swiss-Italian
family of Anton Rossi.
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