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It may have taken Odysseus 10 years of plowing the wine dark seas to return to his native Greece from the Trojan War, but on the Hill Family Estate’s Mediterranean wine cruise we cover the distance in just 10 days with the wine on board. We’re bringing Napa wine...

Harvest is upon us, which means long hours and hard work in the cellars. The grapes are coming in fast and furiously, and they will wait for no one. Once crushed, we get the first hints of what the wines will be like, wafting up from the tanks as we do punchdowns,...

With the catastrophic fires of 2020 the wine world has been holding its collective breath to see what will come from this vintage in the Napa Valley. Fortunately scientific advances in dealing with the fruit from that year have been up to the challenge, and we were...

The last five years have been a challenge for the Napa Valley wine world. From devastating fires in 2017 and 2020 to droughts, the COVID pandemic and its attendant closures, travel restrictions, supply chain interruptions, and labor shortages, making wine here has...

Salve amicis! We all know that wine has an ancient pedigree. Part of the beauty and joy of the wine experience, besides the beauty and joy of simply drinking the wine, is realizing the deep roots that wine has in Mediterranean and Black Sea cultures. While wine did...

Hill Family Estate is proud to welcome Nalani Jo Kubilos and Heather Donoviel to our Yountville tasting room. Heather, our new tasting room manager, was raised in Napa, and comes to us with years of wine and hospitality experience. After getting her degree in Japanese...

Change is in the air, or, rather, in the ground, at the Hill Family Estate Winery. It is time for us to replant our vineyard there. Sitting on Solano Ave just west of Highway 29 on the southern edge of the Yountville AVA (American Viticultural Area), the vineyard will...

Okay. Let’s start with a little quiz. Warm evening Good friends Platters of delicious tapas ____________ Fiery flamenco music. What is missing from the above list?   Hill Family Estate’s 2021 “Stewart Ranch” Albarino, of course! Fortunately, we have the remedy...

Some of the best wineries in Yountville offer a wine and food pairing option to enjoy during your tasting experience. One pairing that makes Hill Family Estate stand out from other Napa Valley wineries is wine and sweets pairing. In particular Hill Family offers wine...

We are excited to announce the release of our 2021 Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc! Hill Family Estate, one of Napa Valley’s best wineries, started producing Sauvignon Blanc in 2005. Since the inaugural bottling, the style of this wine has remained the same, and is...