9 Best NAPA VALLEY Wineries to Visit (2024)

To answer your question: I highly recommend a visit to Phelps , that has a beautiful property. For those who like full body cabernets and opulent Chardonnays , I recommend Bremer Family , that’s is also in the Howell mountain region ! For those with children , I recommend Frogs leap, cause tegy allow they to circulate in the vineyards while you do a tasting . And the library wines are wonderful! Cheers !

What's up with the rocks on the bookcase?

Last February for my birthday, our daughter arranged for a wine tasting at Faust Winery in St. Helena. They offered several excellent wines including a Cab blend that I really liked. They are located in an old house high on a hill where St. Clement winery existed previously. A wonderful winery to visit! You can also walk through their grounds within a forested hillside.

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars also includes grapes from their sister winery, Antinori Family Winery, up the hill from Stag’s Leap along Soda Canyon Road. We know the winemaker at Antinori very well, and she produces some excellent wines there also!

Napa Valley is great! Thanks for sharing.

Most mentioned are bigger, overrated and overpriced imho.

Great video! Thank you for including the Castello. Cheers!

Enjoyed the video John. I love Italian wine, so hearing about Castello di Amorosa was intriguing. The property looks beautiful. How's the wine there?

Darioush is worth a visit- styled after Persepolis🍷

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Domaine Carneros, Mayacamas and Raymond (winemaker) are on our itinerary in a couple of weeks! Schramsburg, VGS Chateau Potelle, and Buena Vista also on.

On my trip to Napa, stags leap was a disappointment compared to tastings I had at other wineries. We expected it to be spectacular based on it's reputation and history, but the wine was just average.

everyone is willing to use all sorts of oak, used, almost no toast, this and that and yet, nobody has enough courage to make red wine without oak. you can go through a month long tour in Napa, visit 60 wineries and end up not tasting single wine without oak. I find this extremely amusing and funny😅

Domaine Carneros would probably be my favourite, I bet... They offer food pairing which for me is always a strong point 😅
I know I will sound unrefined and with a clunky taste but I actually I go against the current: I like bold, powerful wines, full bodied, full of oak notes but please give me velvety tannins 😂.
I also love MLC and Lees ageing so yes to buttery, full bodied Chardonnays! In fact I also had a very buttery Albariño last year and it was amazing ❤

Awesome list, John. Totally agree on Mayacamas. Quintessa, Faust, Clos du Val and Nickel & Nickel are fun spots as well.

Also both Silver Oak locations (Napa and Healdsburg) allow infants under 1 and are really great to visit.

I would also put Quintessa up with Opus for views and interesting tasting. We did barrel tastings of different wines from the property before blending. Was very interesting.
The Faust Haus is also a cool place with great wine.

I would definitely check out Kenzo. The mountain drive was incredible and they have a great story. I got one of the best education experiences of any winery in Napa.

I like Chapellet in Pritchard hill east side of Napa. Their 2013 and 2016 is one of the best rivaling the most expensive ones there from Bond/Promontory/Harlan and it’s priced not bad. I also recommend Corison in St Helena, Cardinale, Shafer(hill side select), Spotswood, Araujo, Seven Apart(Andy Erickson’s gig), and Amuse Bouche(Heidi Barrett’s gig). Andy Erickson and Heidi Barrette are former screaming Eagle wine makers and their wines are always good.

Great insight as usual! Very good info, John! Thanks for sharing.

Have you tried using a lapel mic? Might be more natural to your talking style.

I like Del dotto …problem is I have almost 600 bottles of their wine so I am taking little break…. Opus one…I love the wine but didn’t like attitude of our tour guide….

When you go to Napa please let me know…

What are your thoughts on the elevated cost of tastings at many Napa wineries?

Enjoyable video. A favorite for my wife and me is Adamvs on Howell Mountain. We love their wines, but also the unique architecture of the tasting room and the tour of the property, including feeding a carrot to one of the donkeys, was a memorable experience standing out from the others. Their cabs are delicious with the very lovely tannins and complexity, but the Sauvignon Blanc really stands out as one of the best whites I’ve had from Napa Valley.

what's with the mike? was waiting for the karaoke to start

Funny you and I were just talking about visiting the Mayacamas tasting room versus the main winery on the comments of a previous video. I booked my visit to go to the main winery after you said it was worth it.

I still dream about my tasting at Cardinale 😍

Great list of wineries ! My most memorable experiences are visiting smaller, mom and pop, winery where you get to actually meet with and taste with the proprietor or winemaker

Fun video, and great ideas. I’d love more for other regions. It would also be helpful to understand some of the costs associated with experiences like this.

Hi John, my personal favorite in Napa valley is Seavey Vineyard near the foot of Howell mountain. Great wines from a small family owned winery

Plumpjack, Cade and Darioush are some of my favorites to visit
Schramsberg caves are impressive as well

You clearly have the pulse of your subscribers, John. And you seem to have the ability to predict what wine enthusiasts would benefit from and be most interested in. This is a classic example, in my opinion. I’m certainly taking down notes and saving this video for future reference. With this list of 9 of the best wineries to visit in Napa Valley, I know I will have the best time in this amazing wine region. As I always say, no other wine expert knows Napa Valley like you do. Thank you for this well-curated Napa Valley guide, and congratulations on your excellent video. Cheers and Happy Easter, John!

Mayacamas is a great experience and their wines are excellent