Rudd Estate
Oakville valley floor and Mt. Veeder mountain fruit poured side by side, farmed certified organic in house, made by Natalie Bath.
Why go
Samantha Rudd is the second generation running this estate, and the tasting she hosts is built to put the two vineyard sites next to each other in the glass.2 The farming is certified organic and done in house rather than contracted out, which is the fact the winery leads with.2
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Crossroads House tasting. It is the one door the estate opens to visitors.2
- Avoid: searching for it as Rudd. The hospitality side trades as CROSSROADS by Rudd and books under Crossroads House at Rudd Estate.2
Good to know
- Booking: through the estate's Tock page. Prices and hours are not on any page I could read.2
- Hygiene: not established. No inspection instrument for this county is on file here.
Verdict
listed — Two estates in one glass is the offer here, Oakville floor and Mt. Veeder mountain, farmed certified organic in house and made by Natalie Bath under Samantha Rudd. That is a real reason to sit down, and it is also every fact the record produced: the winery's own site extracted to one marketing sentence and the Crossroads hospitality site refused the fetch, so there are no prices, no hours and no tasting formats here yet. Nobody outside the winery has judged these wines in anything cited here. The rung says the door is worth knowing about and the case for it has not been made.