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Cuvaison Estate Wines

Napa Valley / Carneros · Carneros AVA
👨‍👩‍👧 Family Friendly 🌄 Scenic Views 🧺 Picnic Grounds 🥂 Estate Wines ✅ Walk-ins Welcome
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Hours
Daily 10am–5pm
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Phone
(707) 942-2468
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Tasting Fee
From $30
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Reservations
Walk-ins welcome
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Est.
1969

About Cuvaison Estate Wines

The Schmidheiny family's 1969 Calistoga estate and Carneros growing program — one of the Napa Valley's most institutionally significant wine estates p

Cuvaison Estate Wines is one of the most institutionally significant and Carneros-research-committed wine estates in the Napa Valley.

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Cuvaison Estate WinesCuvaison Estate Wines is one of the most institutionally significant and Carneros-research-committed wine estates in the Napa Valley.
The estate —The estate — established in 1969 and acquired by the Swiss Schmidheiny family in 1979 — has developed 400+ acres of Carneros and Calistoga estate vineyards across multiple decades of systematic cool-climate research and sustainable farming investment, making Cuvaison one of the most comprehensively researched and estate-farming-knowledgeable Carneros wine operations in California.
The Carneros estateThe Carneros estate — on the bay-influenced southern Napa Valley hills where San Pablo Bay's daily fog influence creates the coolest and most maritime-influenced growing conditions available within the Napa Valley AVA designation — produces Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of distinctive mineral freshness and food-first quality.
"The Schmidheiny family's 1969 Calistoga estate and Carneros growing program — one of the Napa Valley's most institutiona"
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Featured Wines

Chardonnay
Los Carneros Chardonnay
Carneros / Cuvaison Estate
Cuvaison's most institutionally researched Carneros flagship — Los Carneros Chardonnay from 400+ estate acres of systematically farmed bay-influenced Carneros terrain, showing the mineral freshness and food-first character that the Schmidheiny family's 45+ years of cool-climate Carneros research produces in California's most commercially important white variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Los Carneros Pinot Noir
Carneros / Cuvaison Estate
Cuvaison's most cool-maritime flagship — Los Carneros Pinot Noir from the most systematically researched and estate-farming-knowledgeable Carneros wine program in California, showing the mineral, food-first, bay-influenced character that 400+ estate acres of Schmidheiny family Carneros conviction produces in the valley's greatest cool-climate red variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Calistoga Cabernet Sauvignon
Calistoga / Cuvaison Estate
Cuvaison's volcanic northern Napa counterpoint — Calistoga estate Cabernet from the Schmidheiny family's northern Napa Valley acreage showing the warm, concentrated character that the most dramatic northern volcanic benchland produces in contrast to the cool Carneros Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of the institutionally researched 400-acre Cuvaison estate program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Estate Merlot
Carneros / Cuvaison Estate
Cuvaison's most food-first and bay-influenced Bordeaux expression — Carneros estate Merlot from the Schmidheiny family's cool-maritime 400+ estate acres showing the plush, food-compatible character that the most comprehensively researched Carneros estate in California produces in this Bordeaux variety for the most broadly accessible and family-welcoming daily walk-in tasting experience.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Carneros Research Estate Walk-In
Daily walk-in at the most institutionally researched and comprehensively estate-farmed Carneros wine program in California — Los Carneros Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Calistoga Cabernet from the Schmidheiny family's 45+ year 400-acre research estate. Family-friendly, picnic grounds, walk-in welcome, the most scientifically well-understood Carneros estate daily tasting experience.
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