St Helena, Spring Mountain and Howell Mountain

Solid · Californian, live-fire · St Helena · $$$

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Aged beef tartare with ember mayo and milk bread, which the MICHELIN inspectors call maybe the finest version they have seen.

Solid · New American · St Helena · $$$

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One menu with white truffles at one end and fried chicken with a Coors Light at the other, around a horseshoe bar on Railroad Avenue.

Solid · St Helena

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Cathy Corison makes Cabernet to age, off benchland between Rutherford and St Helena, and nothing else. Her July note says 2026 hit veraison earlier than she can remember.

Solid · St Helena

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Insignia sits on top of the list, but the Syrah off Larry Hyde & Sons is the glass to ask for. Everything is by appointment on Taplin Road.

Listed · Angwin

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Danielle Cyrot's Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet, tasted sixty minutes at a time from 1,850 feet on Howell Mountain. By appointment, daily, 10 to 4.

Listed · St Helena

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A daily rotating risotto and mozzarella stretched in the kitchen, on Main Street. Monday to Friday only, and the last orders are at half eight.

Listed · St Helena

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Twenty-six blocks on 280 Rutherford acres, each picked and fermented on its own, aged apart up to two years, then blended into one wine with Carmenere in it.

Listed · St Helena

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Still making Riesling on Spring Mountain, where everyone else pulled the whites for Cabernet. Reservations through Tock only.

Listed · St Helena

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One St Helena vineyard certified organic, biodynamic and regenerative organic at once. Taste Lyndenhurst against the Estate Cabernet off the same ground.

Listed · St Helena

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Ninety-five dollars for the way in, $395 to be driven out into the vineyards, seven people at a time. Next month's dinners in four states are already ticketed.

Listed · St Helena

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Over 200 cheeses in the deli, ribs and a tri-tip sandwich off the truck on weekends, and two and a half acres of shaded tables to eat it on.

Listed · Deer Park

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Two hundred and fifty dollars puts Alan Viader in front of you pouring out of the barrel, on Howell Mountain. Four people maximum, and the fee comes off if you buy wine.

Listed · St Helena

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Todd Anderson has farmed these 40 acres at the base of Howell Mountain since 1983 and still makes the wine himself. You taste in the caves, by appointment.

Listed · St Helena

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A tasting at 2,000 feet on Spring Mountain, looking down at the valley floor. The winery's own warning about the drive up is the honest part.

Temp closed · St Helena

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Shut. Duckhorn closed the St Helena estate in April 2026 for a year of building work and reopens in spring 2027. The tastings moved to Paraduxx on the Silverado Trail.

Temp closed · St Helena

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Shut to visitors since the 2020 Hennessey Fire, with no reopening date. The full Kuleto flight pours at Foley Johnson in Rutherford instead, $55.

Listed · St Helena

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André Tchelistcheff told James O'Neil Sullivan to plant this ground, and the vines went into 26 Rutherford acres in 1978. Merlot has stayed at the front ever since.