About Beringer Knights Valley
Knights Valley, the last AVA on Sonoma County's eastern edge, was wine country's forgotten corner for half a century after Prohibition until savvy producers rediscovered its volcanic soils in the mid-1970s, and Napa's historic Beringer, founded in 1876, was among the appellation's pioneering large planters. Beringer's Knights Valley program grew into one of the AVA's defining bottlings, introducing generations of drinkers to this rugged region between the Mayacamas and Mount St. Helena.
The Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon remains a Beringer flagship, drawing on estate vineyards in the warm but ocean-breezed valley that today hosts more than 30 growers and roughly 2,000 planted acres. Note for visitors: Beringer's tasting rooms are at its historic Rhine House estate in St. Helena, Napa Valley; the Knights Valley vineyards themselves are working farmland without a public tasting facility.