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...
