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After you have had a lovely wine tasting at our Hill Family Estate Yountville Tasting Room, might we suggest enjoying the fun of the season at one of the many offerings Napa Valley has to offer for some holiday cheer? Santa’s Train Come on aboard that Napa Valley Wine...

It seems that only a few weeks ago the Napa Valley wineries were resplendent in autumn foliage. Now, with cold night temperatures and the help of a few storms, the vines have definitely embarked on their long winter nap. The grapes have been picked, crushed and...

Are you looking for perfect gifts for wine lovers in your life? Or do you need to stock up on great Napa Valley wines for your holiday festivities? The Hill Family Estate Partners’ Pack is the perfect solution. Each of our partners has selected a favorite wine that...

Hill Family Estate invites you to join us this holiday season for our annual Grapevine Wreathmaking Class. The Hill Family tasting room is located in the picturesque town of Yountville in the heart of Napa Valley. The town is a wonderful place to visit during the...

Hill Family Estate is proud to offer the 2019 vintage of our legendary Atlas Peak Cabernet Sauvignon. This wine, made from fruit from Napa Valley vineyards of Baker, Windy Flats and Stewart Ranch is one of large proportions. A muscular, bold wine, the Atlas Peak...

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...