About Memento Mori Winery
Memento Mori Winery is included in the Wino Notion Napa inventory as a winery or wine brand, but the current public visitor pathway is not sufficiently clear to promise a tasting-room visit.
The safest page treatment begins with that distinction.
A producer can be active, sell wine and maintain a website without operating a routine public tasting room, and an office, mailing, vineyard or production address should never be converted automatically into an invitation to arrive.
The current working source should be used to verify the brand identity, but the hospitality details need a direct check.
Do not mark the winery dog-friendly, family-friendly, picnic-friendly, food-serving, scenic, outdoor or walk-in based on photographs, old directory listings or an address alone.
The page may remain as a transparent producer profile with a direct-status warning and a link to the working official source.
This conservative treatment is useful to travelers because it prevents wasted driving time and awkward arrivals at private properties.
It is also useful to the winery because it avoids publishing access claims the hospitality team did not authorize.
Founded after a 21-year-old cancer survivor's brush with mortality, Memento Mori built its first vintage on 150 cases from Andy Beckstoffer's Georges III Vineyard.
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Calistoga EstateThe winery's 16.5-acre home property at 4301 Azalea Springs Way, acquired in 2022, sits in the Calistoga AVA around a renovated 1887 farmhouse.
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Collector-Priority AccessTastings are private and by appointment, with priority given to existing wine club collectors; prospective visitors join a waiting list.
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Blended, Not Vineyard-DesignateWinemaker Sam Kaplan blends fruit from top sites like Vine Hill Ranch and Dr. Crane into one wine per vintage rather than bottling each vineyard separately.
"Memento Mori Winery is included in the Wino Notion Napa inventory as a winery or wine brand, but the current public visitor pathway is not sufficiently clear ."
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Featured Wines
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Memento Mori Cabernet Sauvignon, Vine Hill Ranch Vineyard
2018 · Napa Valley (Oakville)
A vineyard-designated Cabernet from the noted Vine Hill Ranch site in Oakville.
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Memento Mori Cabernet Sauvignon
2021 · Napa Valley
The winery's blended Napa Valley Cabernet, reviewed by Wine Spectator.
Memento Mori sells primarily through an allocated mailing list, so consumer pricing is not consistently published; figures were not confirmed at time of research.
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Private Collector Tasting
An appointment-only tasting at the winery's Tasting Salon, prioritized for existing wine club collectors.
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