B Cellars Vineyards & Winery — Napa Valley / Oakville Winery & Tasting Room

Napa Valley / Oakville · Oakville AVA
🏔 Cave Tasting 🌄 Scenic Views 🍽 Food Pairing 🥂 Estate Wines
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Hours
Daily 10am–5pm (by appointment)
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Phone
(707) 709-8787
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Tasting Fee
From $65
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Required
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Est.
2003

About B Cellars Vineyards & Winery

B Cellars Vineyards & Winery is a dedicated estate winery in prestigious Oakville sub-appellation at the center of the Napa Valley floor, producing wines that reflect the character of well-drained gravelly loams over rocky subsoils. Jim Ball and Duffy Keys's Oakville chef-driven food-and-wine estate — B Cellars' custom cave system and executive chef-p. The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned B Cellars Vineyards & Winery a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.

The Oakville growing environment shapes everything B Cellars Vineyards & Winery produces. Well-drained gravelly loams over rocky subsoils define the estate's vineyard character, contributing the structure, natural acidity, and terroir specificity that distinguish the finest wines from this appellation. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Sauvignon Blanc form the backbone of the portfolio, with each variety expressing a distinct facet of the estate's unique growing conditions. Winemaking at B Cellars Vineyards & Winery prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.

Visitors to B Cellars Vineyards & Winery can expect a genuine and unhurried tasting experience that reflects the estate's commitment to quality and hospitality. The tasting room provides an authentic introduction to the estate wines and the Oakville appellation. Whether visiting for a focused flight or a deeper exploration of the estate's vineyard programs, B Cellars Vineyards & Winery offers the kind of direct producer experience that wine tourism in California wine country is built on — knowledgeable, welcoming, and genuinely connected to the land and the wines it produces.

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B Cellars VineyardsB Cellars Vineyards & Winery is Oakville's most food-integrated and culinarily ambitious wine estate.
Jim Ball andJim Ball and Duffy Keys — who brought genuine restaurant industry expertise and a conviction that great Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon deserves equally great food pairing to every aspect of the B Cellars program — established the Oakville Cross Road winery in 2003 with a mission of creating the most thoughtfully food-integrated wine appointment available in the Napa Valley.
The B CellarsThe B Cellars custom cave system — excavated beneath the Oakville estate and equipped with a professional culinary kitchen adjacent to the cave tasting room — provides the physical infrastructure for the chef-driven food-and-wine pairing experiences that have made B Cellars one of Wine Enthusiast's most recognized Napa Valley hospitality programs.
"Jim Ball and Duffy Keys's Oakville chef-driven food-and-wine estate — B Cellars' custom cave system and executive chef-p"
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Featured Wines

Bordeaux Blend
Blend 25 Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / B Cellars Estate
B Cellars' most food-designed flagship expression — Blend 25 combining Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and other Bordeaux varieties in the most culinarily intentional blending format, specifically calibrated for pairing with the executive chef's seasonal menu in the cave kitchen experience.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / B Cellars Estate
B Cellars' single-variety Oakville flagship — estate benchland Cabernet consistently earning 92–96 points from Wine Enthusiast for the warm, structured, food-compatible Oakville character that Jim Ball and Duffy Keys's chef-driven quality philosophy produces from one of the most culinarily integrated Oakville estate programs.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet
Oakville / To Kalon Vineyard
B Cellars' most prestigious single-vineyard expression — Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet from Napa Valley's most historically consequential Cabernet benchland site, showing what the food-driven B Cellars winemaking philosophy produces when applied to Oakville's most celebrated single-vineyard source.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Napa Valley / B Cellars Estate
B Cellars' most food-compatible white — Napa Valley Chardonnay specifically designed for the cave kitchen pairing program, showing the mineral, food-first character that Jim Ball and Duffy Keys's culinary conviction demands in every white wine produced at the Oakville Cross Road chef-driven estate.
Estate
★★★★☆

Tasting Experiences

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Chef's Cave Pairing Appointment
Daily appointment in the custom Oakville cave kitchen — Blend 25, estate Cab, and To Kalon single-vineyard Cabernet with executive chef seasonal food pairings in the cave system. Wine Enthusiast-recognized as one of Napa Valley's most food-integrated and culinarily ambitious Oakville wine appointments.
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