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Napa Valley | Wineries | Wine
Tastings
 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.
PUBLIC TASTINGS
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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
 Rombauer
Vineyards - Come and visit our winery; let our
retail room staff pour you all of your favorite wines. We
are pleased to announce new releases of the 2002 Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon and 2002 Napa Valley Merlot. With Spring
approaching, this is a great time to visit Napa Valley and
Rombauer Vineyards. As always, the Rombauer Vineyards retail
staff is pleased to welcome you, your family and friends to
our tasting room. We offer complimentary tasting daily from
10-5 and tours by appointment. For assistance with wine questions,
orders and shipping please call us at 800-622-2206 Rombauer
Vineyards is located north of St. Helena, 2.5 miles north
of the intersection of Deer Park Road and the Silverado Trail.
PUBLIC TASTINGS
ORDER ONLINE CAVES TOURS (707)
963-5170 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
 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
 Silver
Rose Cellars -The winery is the fruition of a
life long dream of J-Paul Dumont and family. Since buying
the property in 1985, J-Paul, his wife Sally and son Derrick,
have gradually been developing the Silver Rose to be a first
class destination resort. With luxurious accommodations, full
service spa, conference center, winery and soon a planned
four star restaurant, Silver Rose offers visitors a truly
unique stay in the world famous “Napa Valley”.
The Winery opened in June of 2000. The first 4 vintages have
accumulated over 200 awards. Included is a 93 rating from
the Wine Spectator for our 2002 D’argent Chardonnay
and our 2002 Jupilles Merlot received a score of 98 at the
California State Fair. We were recently recognized in the
American Gold Medal wine guide… To be included in this
guide you must be in the top 10% Gold Medal winners for 2005,
based on major wine competitions throughout the U.S.A.
TASTINGS ORDER
ONLINE (707)
942-1440 DIRECTIONS
 Rocking
Horse is a small quality producer of Napa Valley
Ultra Premium red wines. When established in 1989, production
was limited to 600 cases. Born from the desire to produce
the absolute best wines from legendary growing regions, Jeff
and Nancy Doran began their quest moving quietly from a backyard
bottling line to their current 8,000 case production level.
Extreme care is taken to marry the proper vineyard site and
appellation with the appropriate varietals. Trademark wines
are typically “made in the vineyard” and picked
at optimum ripeness to ensure a silky full mouth feel and
dark crimson purple hue. Each wine is true to its varietal
character and offers many layers of complexity. Properly aged
wines will be rewarded by cellaring.
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226-5555 DIRECTIONS
 Graeser
Winery Graeser Winery Estate on Diamond Mountain
is an oasis of old Napa Valley charm. The picturesque hillside
vineyards are planted to the classic Bordeaux varieties Cabernet
Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Our wines are a true
reflection of this very special place with a relaxed, classic
beauty that is timeless.
TASTINGS ORDER
ONLINE (707)
942-4437 DIRECTIONS
 Vincent
Arroyo Winery produces over 6,000 cases from
estate vineyards. Every year we make Chardonnay, Cabernet,
Petite Sirah, Merlot, Sangiovese and a couple red blends –
in fact, our dog even makes a wine! We consider Petite Sirah
to be our signature wine, and develop those vineyards into
several different bottlings – a “Napa Valley”
Petite Sirah which is a blend our many Petite Sirah vineyards;
2 vineyard designated Petite Sirahs, Greenwood Ranch and Rattlesnake
Acres; a Winemaker’s Reserve Petite Sirah which is barrel-aged
for 34 months; and a Petite Sirah Port. Most of these wines
are sold on a waiting-list basis.
TASTINGS (707)
942-9231 DIRECTIONS
 Clos
Pegase - Can a winery elevate the craft of winemaking
to a fine art? Of course it can. Can a winery dedicate itself
as a temple to works of fine art? Why not? But can a winery
that does one also achieve the other? Good question. Now,
if you were to put that question to Bacchus, god of wine,
mischief-maker and generally acknowledged originator of the
practice of horsing around, we know just where he'd send you:
straight to the horse's mouth. And not just any horse. He'd
send you to Pegasus, the winged horse of ancient myth whose
hooves brushed against the earth, unleashing the sacred spring
of the muses. Lucky earth. That spring gave life to grapevines,
and the wine that flowed from them inspired poetry and art
in all who drank it.
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ONLINE (707)
942-4981 DIRECTIONS
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