Calistoga
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The valley narrows at the top and the sparkling wine is made here. Schramsberg ages its bottles in caves cut into the hillside, Sterling and Frank Family pour on the way into town, and Tom Eddy sits at the very top of the valley.
Restaurants8
Auro★just added?
Solid · Californian tasting menu, Mexican and Japanese influence · Calistoga · $$$$
booking essential
Seven courses at the Four Seasons in Calistoga, one Michelin star every year since 2023. You come in through Truss, the casual room next door, and eat beside a kitchen behind glass.
Schramsberg Vineyards
Solid · Calistoga
booking essentialthe room’s own account
Jack and Jamie Davies found a wrecked Victorian and a set of collapsed caves above St Helena in 1965 and made a Blanc de Blancs that year. You taste standing in those caves all winter.
Frank Family Vineyards
Listed · Calistoga
booking essentialthe room’s own account
Winston Hill Cabernet finishing on older library vintages, poured either in the original Craftsman house or in a Howard Backen barn. Ten to five, daily, by reservation.
Sterling Vineyards
Listed · Calistoga
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An aerial gondola is the only way up to the winery, and every tasting includes the round trip. Above 100 degrees they close it and the hill closes with it.
Tom Eddy Winery
Listed · Calistoga
booking essentialthe room’s own account
Single-vineyard Napa Cabernets pulled straight out of the barrel in the cave, then the finished bottles beside them. $150, two hours, poured by the owner.
August Briggs Winery
Listed · Calistoga
walk-in
A Calistoga tasting room on Lincoln Avenue, open Friday to Monday, pouring by the flight, the glass or the bottle. The record on the wine is thin, so I have no critic to point you at.
Eisele Vineyard
Listed · Calistoga
the room’s own account
Eisele's site loads as an empty shell and its archived copies are blank too, so I have no wine, no price and no hours to give you. The pin is 2155 Pickett Road, Calistoga.
Swanson Vineyards & Tasting Room
Listed · Calistoga
booking essentialthe room’s own account
Founded in 1985 on Pinot Grigio and Merlot while the valley planted Cabernet. The tasting is modeled on a Parisian salon rather than a bar.
Producers1
LOLA Winesjust added?
Listed · Wine, California, mixed varieties · Calistoga · $$
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More than fifteen varieties across sixty acres, some of them ones Seth Cripe says he is keeping from disappearing. It started in 2008 with 700 cases of Russian River Pinot.
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