About Delectus Winery
Delectus was founded in 1995 by Austrian-born winemaker Gerhard Reisacher, who moved to Napa Valley at 19, and his wife Linda Butler, built around minimal-intervention winemaking: hand-picked fruit, barrel-by-barrel evaluation, and wines left unfined and unfiltered.
Vintage Wine Estates acquired Delectus in 2016. The brand's tasting room, which had relocated to the former Milat Winery space on Highway 29 in south St. Helena in 2014, closed permanently on December 1, 2021. Robert Smith, estate winemaker since 2011 with prior experience at Quintessa and Quixote Winery, continues to make the wines, which are now sold direct-to-consumer with private and virtual tastings available by request.
Delectus's public tasting room closed for good on December 1, 2021; the brand now sells wine strictly direct-to-consumer.
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Founded 1995Started by Austrian-born winemaker Gerhard Reisacher and Linda Butler.
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Tasting room closed Dec. 1, 2021The south St. Helena tasting room (relocated there in 2014) shut permanently; Delectus is now DTC-only.
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Owned by Vintage Wine Estates since 2016VWE, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024, acquired Delectus in 2016; Delectus was not among the specific brands named in public reporting on the 2024 bankruptcy asset auction.
"Delectus is an active, direct-to-consumer Napa Valley Cabernet producer with no public tasting room; the page's 'Tasting Room' framing needs correcting to reflect appointment-only/virtual access."
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Featured Wines
SAUVIGNON BLANC
Delectus Sauvignon Blanc
2025 · Oakville, Napa Valley
Estate white from Oakville fruit, part of Delectus's small annual release.
$55
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Bear Crossing Cabernet Sauvignon
2023 · Atlas Peak, Napa Valley
Mountain-fruit Cabernet from Atlas Peak, aged a minimum of two years in barrel before release.
$165
RED BLEND
Cuvée Julia
2023 · Napa Valley Mountain Blend
Mountain-fruit red blend, one of four wines in Delectus's current release.
$185
Current releases as listed at delectuswines.com, July 2026 (fourth wine, French Wedding Cabernet from Rutherford, 2023, $175, omitted for space); total production is just over 1,600 cases across the four wines.
Tasting Experiences
Private Tasting
By-request private tasting, offered since the permanent closure of the public tasting room in December 2021.
By appointment
Virtual Tasting
Remote tasting option offered directly by the winery for mailing-list members and inquirers.
By appointment
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