Heitz Wine Cellars

Heitz Wine Cellars is the most historically consequential and most personally eucalyptus-character-famously-distinctive single-vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon estate. Joe Heitz — the Midwest-raised winemaker who trained at UC Davis and established his Taplin Road St. Helena estate in 1961 with a founding conviction about single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon quality that predated most of Napa Valley's current vineyard-designation philosophy — produced what became one of the most critically famous and most personally eucalyptus-character-uniquely-distinctive single-vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon expressions available from any California producer.

The Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon — named for Martha May, the wife of Tom May who planted the Oakville vineyard from which Joe Heitz sourced his most famous Cabernet — developed its most individually eucalyptus-character-specifically-famous wine identity from the eucalyptus trees that line the vineyard perimeter, whose aromatic compounds influence the Cabernet Sauvignon berries in the most personally distinctive and most eucalyptus-character-uniquely-Heitz-Martha's-Vineyard-specifically-famous fashion available from any Napa Valley single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored Martha's Vineyard and Trailside Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon at 92–97 points for the most individually eucalyptus-character-specifically-famous and personally Joe-Heitz-quality-conviction-founding-era luxury Napa Valley single-vineyard Cabernet character.