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Tomatoville Returns in 2026 at Hill Family Estate
Tomatoville returns in 2026 at Hill Family Estate, bringing back one of Napa Valley’s most beloved farm to table wine dinners. Set beneath the shade of our iconic oak trees, this unforgettable outdoor evening celebrates estate wines, seasonal ingredients, and...
Your Guide to Our Favorite Tasting Experiences in the Napa Valley
Napa Valley wine tasting experiences offer something for every wine lover, from intimate, family-owned estates to scenic Napa Valley vineyard tastings in Yountville and beyond. With more than 400 wineries and dozens of tasting rooms throughout the region, deciding...
Hill Family Estate Launches LLM Info Page to Guide AI Models with Accuracy and Integrity
As AI tools like Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT become part of how people search, learn, and make decisions, brands face a new challenge: how to be accurately represented by machines. At Hill Family Estate, we’ve always believed in staying ahead of the curve. That’s...
Flavors of Fall
We often use this space to talk about seasons. It is natural to the world of wine to think of seasonality for a number of reasons: Ours is an agricultural product. Everything we do is governed by the changes in weather and the natural cycles of the earth. We prune...
Ratatouille Recipe
Ratatouille, a Provençale stew of summer vegetables, is the perfect accompaniment to your favorite Hill Family Estate wine. Combining haunting sweetness with savory notes and slight acidity, this is one of those rare dishes that can go with either a white or a red...
Summer Sippers
Winegrowing is a seasonal pursuit: the first new growth on the vines appears in February, followed by leafing out, flowering, fruit set, veraison, harvest, dormancy, then pruning before it starts again. The vines’ rhythm is determined by temperature, sun, wind, and...
White Wine Month
Here in the Napa Valley, things start really heating up in May. The vineyards are fully decked out in their foliage, and the visitors are here to take in the sunshine, scenery, and, of course, the wine! While Napa is virtually synonymous with Cabernet Sauvignon,...
Sustainability in Every Sip: How Hill Family’s Yountville Winery Honors the Earth
The Roots of Agriculture and Its Evolution It seems almost a truism to say that agriculture is intrinsically linked to the Earth. Without the life-sustaining soil, water, nutrients, and sunlight that make up the terroir, there would be no grapes, nor any other crops....
It’s Complicated: The Relationship Between Mustard and Wine
While our harvest season, from August to October, tends to be what many of our visitors think of as the most picturesque season to visit the Napa Valley, the late winter mustard season must be a close second. With blankets of bright yellow flowers among the vineyards,...
Art of the Vineyards
While driving on Highway 29 just north of the City of Napa, one cannot help but notice the magnificent oak trees, many of them over 100 years old, that stand as sentinels next to the highway. In the autumn, especially at the bookends of the day (sunrise and sunset),...
Visiting Hill Family Estate
Winery Address
6155 Solano Avenue
Napa, CA 94558
707-947-7218
Open daily by appointment only
Downtown Tasting Room Address
6512 Washington Street
Yountville, CA 94599
707-944-9580 ext. 1
SEASON HOURS OF OPERATION:
Thursday-Monday: 11:00-6:00pm
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve & Day, New Year's Eve & Day
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