Pine Ridge Vineyards
Cellar 47 is a lounge cut into the cave and named for the 47 estate acres above it. The Cabernet Cave tasting seats you among barrels 130 feet down, $85.
Why go
The estate farms 47 acres in the Stags Leap District and pulls the rest of its fruit from 160 acres across Napa.1 You can drink both underground. The Cabernet Cave tasting puts eight people among barrels 130 feet below the vineyard for $85, and Cellar 47, the lounge named for those 47 acres, takes ten for $125 with a walk through the cave system first.1 Every visit passes the Exploration Vineyard, a block planted with each variety the estate grows, which is a straightforward way to see what a Cabernet vine looks like next to everything else.1 The winery claims a Food & Wine listing among the 75 Best Wineries to Visit in California, names no year for it and links nothing, so take it as the winery's claim.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Cabernet Cave tasting at $85, sixty minutes, eight people at most, in the cave rather than the tasting room.1
- Order: the $60 Estate Tasting if you want the short version. Sixty minutes, six people, seated, current releases.1
- Avoid: taking a dog or anyone under 21 into the caves. Neither is allowed down there; both are fine in the garden.1
What locals & experts say
- Pine Ridge Vineyards, on where the room got its name:
Journey deep into the heart of our wine cave to Cellar 47, an intimate lounge named for the 47 estate acres we farm in the Stags Leap District.
1 - The same page, on the Cabernet Cave:
Surrounded by barrels 130 feet underground, you'll explore a curated selection of Pine Ridge Vineyard's Cabernet Sauvignons from across Napa Valley renowned appellations.
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Both of those are the winery on itself. I read no outside palate on these wines this pass, so I have no critic's verdict for you.
Good to know
- Hours: daily 10am to 4pm, closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Booking runs through Tock and the winery says weekends fill.1
- The garden booking is bottle-only and unhosted. Ninety minutes, wine bought on arrival, no outside alcohol, two-bottle minimum for six or more, and it goes if the weather does.1
- Hygiene: not established. No inspection instrument for this county is on file here.
Verdict
could-visit — Cellar 47 is named for the 47 acres the winery farms in the Stags Leap District, and the Cabernet Cave tasting sits you among barrels 130 feet under those acres for $85. That is a specific thing to do rather than a view to look at, and it is the reason to pick this gate over the next one on Silverado Trail. It also solves the group problem most of the valley cannot: the garden takes dogs and children on a bottle booking while the caves take neither, so a family can split the difference. The rung stops here because the only accolade on offer is a Food & Wine listing the winery claims with no year and no link, and because nobody outside the winery was read on the wine this pass.