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Napa
Valley | St. Helena | Wineries
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 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vineyard and farmhouse have been replaced by a modern working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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963-5853 DIRECTIONS
 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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963-1616 DIRECTIONS
 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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963-2298 DIRECTIONS
 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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963-5472 DIRECTIONS
 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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963-0826 DIRECTIONS
 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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529-WINE DIRECTIONS
 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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963-3542 DIRECTIONS
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