In Vine Cliff's 90-minute Legacy Estate Wasting Experience, guests tour the 100-acre property where winemaking began in the 1870 and the 15,000 square foot wine caves before tasting what's on offer along with a pairing of artisan cheeses ($85/person, reservations required). Vine Cliff has more than one tasting room in Napa County, but it's only at their historic estate on Silverado Trail where you'll get to travel underground to taste wines like the 2018 Oakville Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, a combination of plum and vanilla with scents of black cherry, licorice, violets, and crushed lavender. Reservations ($150/person and $175/person for groups of 12+) are required. Following a tour of the underground operation, guests are seated in the tasting chamber to sample six of Jarvis' estate and reserve wines. In the center, a natural underground water source has been harnessed into a cascading waterfall and stream. The 45,000 square foot cave, dug in a curved parabola shape, is accented with cast bronze doors and wall sconces, arched alcoves, and fiber optic chandeliers. If there were an award for most spectacular wine cave, Jarvis Estate would be hard to beat. The waterfall at the heart of Jarvis Estate's wine cave. Don't miss out on the lesser known, toastier (and more expensive) J.
Tours are limited to just four guests, guaranteeing that each tasting is a perfectly intimate experience-go for the all sparkling experience ($60/person) or team three sparklers with three red wines from Davies Vineyards wines ($70/person). Here you'll learn the winery's Old World ways of producing bubbly in the methode champenoise, and may even be invited to try your hand at riddling the aging bottles. If you're considering popping the question to your S.O., a candlelit sparkling wine tasting in the historic, 125-year-old caves at Schramsberg, in the rolling hills above Calistoga, would be a golden opportunity. In their 90-minute experience, wine educators take guests underground for a tasting of five estate cabernet sauvignons-including the Pine Ridge Vineyards flagship wine, Fortis-in one of Napa Valley's best cave tours ($95/person or $76/members, reservations required). The centerpiece of Pine Ridge Vineyards' network of hillside caves is Cellar 47, an elegant tasting venue decorated with soft lighting and inviting furnishings. Head underground for a unique look at behind-the-scenes wine production and a taste from a classically aged barrel at these wineries (one of them even has a waterfall!).Ĭellar 47 at Pine Ridge Vineyards. In Wine Country, a cave is more than a cave: It's a magical place where wine quietly chills out to age gracefully.ĭespite the ubiquity of world-class wine producers in Napa and Sonoma, wine caves-especially those that can be visited by the tasting public-are relatively few and far between.
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