Napa Valley
Napa Valley is a wine region in the United States. America's defining Cabernet Sauvignon region, known for ripe fruit, full body, and polished tannin.
Where it is
Map data: Natural Earth; UC Davis Library
Places in Napa Valley
Howell Mountain
A volcanic ridge above the Napa fog line, cooler by day and warmer at night than the valley floor.
Oakville
A benchland stretch of the Napa Valley floor, warm by day and reached by evening fog.
Rutherford
A central Napa Valley benchland known for structured reds and the long-standing “Rutherford Dust” tasting shorthand.
Stags Leap District
A sheltered pocket of eastern Napa beneath volcanic palisades, cooled by afternoon air off the bay.
Atlas Peak
A high AVA in the eastern hills above Napa Valley, on volcanic soil above the fog.
Calistoga
The northern end of Napa Valley, enclosed by mountains and generally warmer than the valley farther south.
Chiles Valley
A high inland valley east of Napa's main floor, with warm days and cool nights.
Coombsville
One of Napa Valley's cooler AVAs, open to San Pablo Bay air and known for a long growing season.
Explore
Classic styles
Grapes
Producers in Napa Valley
Barnett Vineyards
Barnett Vineyards farms steep, terraced Spring Mountain vineyards above Napa Valley, where the grapes must be picked by hand.
Corison
A St. Helena winery founded by Cathy Corison in 1987, making Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, including Kronos from vines planted in 1971.
David Arthur Vineyards
A Long family winery on Pritchard Hill, in the hills east of Napa Valley, making Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet-led blends from its estate.
Duckhorn Vineyards
A Napa Valley winery near St. Helena that bottled Merlot from its first 1978 harvest, from Three Palms Vineyard near Calistoga.
Eleven Eleven
A winery in Napa's Oak Knoll District making single-variety wines, with Kirk Venge as winemaker.
Emmolo
A Napa Valley label named for winemaker Jenny Wagner's mother's family, longtime Napa farmers, making Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and a sparkling wine.
Frog's Leap
A Rutherford winery in Napa Valley, founded in 1981, that farms organically and grows its grapes without irrigation.
Ghost Block
A Napa winery of the Hoxsey family, named for a local story of Napa pioneer George Yount's ghost crossing a vineyard beside Yountville's Pioneer Cemetery.
Hoopes Vineyard
A family winery in the southern tip of Napa's Oakville, now run by the second generation under Lindsay Hoopes.
Mumm Napa
A Napa Valley sparkling wine house founded in 1979 by the Champagne house G.H. Mumm, making wine by the traditional Champagne method.
Nickel & Nickel
Nickel & Nickel, part of the Far Niente family of wineries, specializes in single-vineyard wines labeled with the vineyard and made from one grape variety.
Odette Estate
A Stags Leap District estate in Napa Valley, owned by the PlumpJack group, making Cabernet Sauvignon from organically farmed vines.
Opus One
An Oakville estate founded in 1979 as a partnership between Robert Mondavi of Napa and Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Bordeaux, making one Cabernet-led red.
Quilt & Co.
A Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon brand from Joe Wagner's Copper Cane company, named for the patchwork of Napa vineyards it blends.
Quintessa
Quintessa is a biodynamically farmed Rutherford estate in Napa Valley focused on an estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon-led red blend.
Round Pond Estate
A family estate in Napa's Rutherford that makes Cabernet Sauvignon and presses olive oil from its own orchards in its own mill.
Schramsberg Vineyards
A Napa Valley sparkling wine house making traditional-method wines, with a second fermentation in the bottle and aging in hillside caves dug in the 1870s.
The Vineyardist
The Vineyardist is a small Diamond Mountain estate in Napa Valley, making Cabernet Sauvignon from steep, high-elevation vineyards.