About Clos Du Val
John Goelet and Bernard Portet's 1972 Stags Leap District French-heritage estate — the winery whose Stags Leap District Cabernet competed at the 1976
Clos Du Val is one of Napa Valley's most historically significant and French-heritage-rooted wine estates.
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Clos Du ValClos Du Val is one of Napa Valley's most historically significant and French-heritage-rooted wine estates.
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John Goelet —John Goelet — a French-American wine entrepreneur — and Bernard Portet — whose father was cellar master at Château Lafite Rothschild — established Clos Du Val in 1972 with a singular conviction: produce Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon with the restraint, elegance, and food-compatibility of French Bordeaux rather than the rich, ripe, immediately approachable California style that dominated valley production.
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The French restraintThe French restraint philosophy paid its most historic dividend at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, where Clos Du Val's Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon appeared on the tasting table alongside Warren Winiarski's Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet — demonstrating that not one but two Stags Leap District estates could compete on equal terms with Bordeaux's First Growths.
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
Hirondelle Vineyard Estate Cabernet
Stags Leap District / Hirondelle Vineyard
Clos Du Val's flagship from the 1976 Judgment of Paris estate — Hirondelle Vineyard Stags Leap District Cabernet produced with Bernard Portet's Lafite Rothschild-informed French restraint philosophy on the volcanic palisade terrain that competed at Paris 1976 alongside Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Grand Val Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Stags Leap District / Hirondelle Vineyard
Clos Du Val's most ambitious Reserve expression — Grand Val from the Hirondelle Vineyard's finest Stags Leap District blocks showing the most concentrated and age-worthy statement of the French-heritage estate's volcanic palisade mineral elegance and structural depth.
Estate
★★★★☆
White Blend
Ariadne White Blend
Napa Valley
Clos Du Val's distinctive white expression — Ariadne blending Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, and other white Bordeaux varieties in the most genuinely French-heritage white wine statement available from a Napa Valley estate, showing what Bernard Portet's Lafite background produces in California white Bordeaux varieties.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Napa Valley Pinot Noir
Carneros / Napa Valley
Clos Du Val's cool-climate Burgundy expression — Carneros and cool Napa Valley Pinot Noir produced with the same French restraint and food-first philosophy that defines every Clos Du Val wine from the 1972 estate whose Cabernet competed at the historic 1976 Judgment of Paris.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Château Estate Tasting
Daily tasting at the French-heritage Stags Leap District château estate of the 1976 Judgment of Paris — Hirondelle Vineyard Cabernet, Grand Val Reserve, and Ariadne white blend from Bernard Portet's Lafite-informed French restraint tradition. Picnic grounds and Silverado Trail palisade views.
$45
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