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Chappellet Winery — Napa Valley / Pritchard Hill Winery & Tasting Room

Napa Valley / Pritchard Hill · Napa Valley AVA
🌄 Scenic Views 🧺 Picnic Grounds 🍽 Food Pairing 🥂 Estate Wines
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Hours
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm (by appointment)
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Phone
(707) 963-7136
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Tasting Fee
From $55
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Required
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Est.
1967

About Chappellet Winery

Chappellet Winery is a dedicated estate winery in world-renowned Napa Valley appellation in Northern California, producing wines that reflect the character of diverse soils and the thermal influence of San Pablo Bay. Donn and Molly Chappellet's 1967 Pritchard Hill founding estate — the iconic pyramid winery on the volcanic ridge above . The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned Chappellet Winery a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.

The Napa Valley growing environment shapes everything Chappellet Winery produces. Diverse soils and the thermal influence of san pablo bay define the estate's vineyard character, contributing the structure, natural acidity, and terroir specificity that distinguish the finest wines from this appellation. Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Merlot form the backbone of the portfolio, with each variety expressing a distinct facet of the estate's unique growing conditions. Winemaking at Chappellet Winery prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.

Visitors to Chappellet 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 Napa Valley appellation. Whether visiting for a focused flight or a deeper exploration of the estate's vineyard programs, Chappellet 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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Chappellet Winery isChappellet Winery is Pritchard Hill's founding estate and the property that first demonstrated to the California wine world what volcanic mountain terrain above the Napa Valley fog line could produce in Cabernet Sauvignon and Chenin Blanc.
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When Donn andWhen Donn and Molly Chappellet purchased the Sage Canyon Road ridge property in 1967 — at a time when the concept of mountain Napa Valley wine was essentially unexplored — they established a conviction that the ridge above Lake Hennessey's volcanic soils, dramatic elevation, and sweeping valley views represented a distinctly different and superior Cabernet Sauvignon terroir from the benchland vineyards that dominated Napa Valley wine production.
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The iconic pyramidThe iconic pyramid winery building — designed by California architect Richard Keith and completed in 1969 — has become one of the most photographed and architecturally distinctive wine estate structures in the Napa Valley, its triangular steel-and-redwood form sitting dramatically against the Pritchard Hill skyline above the reservoir.
"Donn and Molly Chappellet's 1967 Pritchard Hill founding estate — the iconic pyramid winery on the volcanic ridge above "
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Featured Wines

Cabernet Sauvignon
Signature Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley / Pritchard Hill
Chappellet's founding mountain expression — Pritchard Hill and Napa Valley Signature Cabernet consistently earning 93–96 points for the volcanic mountain mineral character and structural depth that Donn Chappellet's 1967 pioneering ridge conviction established as the template for every subsequent Pritchard Hill estate program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Mountain Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley / Pritchard Hill Mountain
Chappellet's most mountain-expressive estate Cabernet — Mountain Cuvée from the Pritchard Hill volcanic ridge's most carefully identified blocks, showing the most concentrated and age-worthy character of the founding 1967 mountain estate at its most structurally intense and site-specific quality tier.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chenin Blanc
Chenin Blanc
Napa Valley / Chappellet Estate
Chappellet's most historically unusual and personally committed white — estate Chenin Blanc maintained through decades of commercial unfashionability as one of California's oldest and most consistently produced Chenin Blanc programs, showing the aromatic, honeyed, food-compatible character that Donn Chappellet's Loire-inspired conviction produces on Pritchard Hill.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Merlot
Napa Valley / Pritchard Hill Mountain
Chappellet's Pritchard Hill mountain Merlot — estate Cabernet's Bordeaux companion showing what the volcanic ridge terrain and mountain-elevation growing conditions that produce the flagship Cabernet consistently deliver in this Bordeaux variety when the same 1967 founding mountain conviction guides every farming decision.
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★★★★☆

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Pyramid Winery Mountain Appointment
Appointment at the iconic 1969 pyramid winery on Pritchard Hill — Signature and Mountain Cuvée Cabernet with estate Chenin Blanc, sweeping Lake Hennessey and valley views, and picnic grounds on the founding 1967 mountain estate. Summer Sunset Series with live music and wood-fired pizza. The most scenically dramatic Pritchard Hill estate appointment.
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